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Thermal Energy Development Part LP

Biomass power plant in California, United States. Approximate location 37.7199, -121.4887.

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Thermal Energy Development Part LP is an biomass power plant in California, United States. It ranks #174 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1830.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in United States

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

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.0°Cannual mean temp
1,386heating degree-days (base 18°C)
673cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
343 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 11 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 19 °CON: 12 °CND: 8 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 44% 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: 32/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

United States has 30 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 302 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.7199, -121.4887 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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