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Suburban Landfill Gas Recovery

Waste power plant in Ohio, United States of America. Approximate location 39.9124, -82.245.

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Suburban Landfill Gas Recovery is a 6 MW waste power plant in Ohio, United States of America. It is operated by WM Renewable Energy LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 30 GWh, it can supply roughly 8,714 homes. It ranks #5471 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
30GWh reported / yr
8,714homes powered
2011commissioned (~15 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0057170.

Reported generation trend

2013: 38 GWh20132014: 32 GWh20142015: 30 GWh20152016: 30 GWh20162017: 30 GWh20172018: 31 GWh20182019: 30 GWh201938 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by WM Renewable Energy LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.7°Cannual mean temp
2,962heating degree-days (base 18°C)
332cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
282 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -2 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 12 °CON: 6 °CND: 1 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 21% 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: 62/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #315 largest waste power plant of 541 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 541 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 9,768 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 39.9124, -82.245 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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