Waste power plant in Michigan, United States of America. Approximate location 42.1057, -83.4988.
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Sumpter Energy Associates is a 11 MW waste power plant in Michigan, United States of America. It is operated by LES Project Holdings LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 2 GWh, it can supply roughly 428 homes. It ranks #4449 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1993, it is around 33 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 16,275 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 3,794 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054536.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by LES Project Holdings LLC. All plants by this company →
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.1°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 40% 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: 74/100 — 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.
The #208 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.
Coordinates 42.1057, -83.4988 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
