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WestRock Southeast LLC.

Waste power plant in Georgia, United States of America. Approximate location 32.5036, -82.8443.

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WestRock Southeast LLC. is a 82 MW waste power plant in Georgia, United States of America. It is operated by WestRock Southeast LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 222 GWh, it can supply roughly 63,371 homes. It ranks #2178 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 53,909 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 12,566 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

82MW installed capacity
222GWh reported / yr
63,371homes powered
53,909t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1989commissioned (~37 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0054004.

53,909 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

12,566passenger cars driven for a year
7,030homes' yearly energy use
898,483tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2013: 416 GWh20132014: 0 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20152016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: 0 GWh20182019: 222 GWh2019416 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by WestRock Southeast LLC.

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 32.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.3°Cannual mean temp
1,012heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,123cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
70 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 14 °CMA: 18 °CAM: 22 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 19 °CON: 14 °CND: 10 °CD27 °C

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #19 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 32.5036, -82.8443 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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