Waste power plant in Virginia, United States of America. Approximate location 36.8083, -76.3036.
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Wheelabrator Portsmouth is a 60 MW waste power plant in Virginia, United States of America. It is operated by Wheelabrator Environmental Systems. Based on reported annual generation of 196 GWh, it can supply roughly 56,142 homes. It ranks #2545 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1987, it is around 39 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 253,380 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 59,063 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 USA0054998.
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 Wheelabrator Environmental Systems. All plants by this company →
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.8°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 32% 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: 37/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #43 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 36.8083, -76.3036 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
