South Cardup (Shale Road Landfill) is a 3 MW waste power plant in Western Australia, Australia. It is operated by Western Australian Landfill Services. Based on reported annual generation of 29 GWh, it can supply roughly 8,400 homes. It ranks #434 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000359.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Western Australian Landfill Services.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 32.3°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 59% 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: 26/100 — 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.
The #21 largest waste power plant of 50 in Australia by capacity.
Australia has 50 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 189 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -32.2664, 116.0193 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
