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Wheelabrator Concord Facility

Waste power plant in New Hampshire, United States of America. Approximate location 43.2866, -71.5769.

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Wheelabrator Concord Facility is a 14 MW waste power plant in New Hampshire, United States of America. It is operated by Wheelabrator Environmental Systems. Based on reported annual generation of 99 GWh, it can supply roughly 28,371 homes. It ranks #4211 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 117,420 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 27,371 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

14MW installed capacity
99GWh reported / yr
28,371homes powered
117,420t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1989commissioned (~37 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0050873.

117,420 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

27,371passenger cars driven for a year
15,313homes' yearly energy use
1,957,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Reported generation trend

2013: 102 GWh20132014: 101 GWh20142015: 102 GWh20152016: 100 GWh20162017: 99 GWh20172018: 97 GWh20182019: 99 GWh2019102 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Wheelabrator Environmental Systems. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.6°Cannual mean temp
3,923heating degree-days (base 18°C)
138cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
134 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -7 °CJF: -5 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 9 °CON: 3 °CND: -3 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 60% 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: 83/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #175 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 43.2866, -71.5769 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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