Biomass power plant in East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana. Approximate location 5.8803, -57.1497.
BiomassEast Berbice-CorentyneGuyana
Skeldon is a 30 MW biomass power plant in East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana. It is operated by Guyana Power & Light. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 41,297 homes (estimated). It ranks #2 of 5 Guyana power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. In context, biomass supplies about 1.4% of Guyana's electricity; the national grid averages 645 gCO₂/kWh (2.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023000.
Operated by Guyana Power & Light. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 5.9°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 100% below 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: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.
Guyana has 1 biomass power plant in this dataset, together about 30 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 5.8803, -57.1497 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
