Biomass power plant in Alberta, Canada. Approximate location 54.4153, -114.1769.
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Westlock (Dapp) is a 17 MW biomass power plant in Alberta, Canada. It is operated by Drayton Valley Power (SPRD Program). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 23,401 homes (estimated). It ranks #561 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.6% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0008548.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Drayton Valley Power (SPRD Program).
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.4°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 139% 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: 98/100 — 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 #50 largest biomass power plant of 111 in Canada by capacity.
Canada has 111 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 2,742 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 54.4153, -114.1769 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
