Reworld Niagara I

Reworld Niagara I is a 50 MW waste power plant in New York, United States. It is operated by Covanta Energy of Niagara LP. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 68,828 homes (estimated). It ranks #49 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 419,330 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 97,746 cars driven for a year.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-751.

419,330 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest waste plants in United States

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Covanta Energy of Niagara LP. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

Monthly mean temperature

Heating degree-days here run 48% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 79/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #1 largest waste power plant of 9 in United States by capacity.

United States has 9 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 124 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Covanta Niagara I LLC · Waste · 50 MW · New York
• WPS Power Niagara · Biomass · n/a MW · New York
• Lewiston Niagara · Hydro · 240 MW · New York
• Robert Moses Niagara · Hydro · 2,429 MW · New York
• Sir Adam Beck 2 · Hydro · 1,499 MW · New York
• Sir Adam Beck 1 · Hydro · 450 MW · New York

Location

Coordinates 43.0839, -79.0056 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.