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Woodman Point

Waste power plant in Western Australia, Australia. Approximate location -32.1424, 115.7713.

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Woodman Point is a 2 MW waste power plant in Western Australia, Australia. It is operated by Water Corporation. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,477 homes (estimated). It ranks #466 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

2MW installed capacity
2,477homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000354.

Capacity vs largest waste plants in Australia

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

Owner

Operated by Water Corporation.

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 32.1°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.3°Cannual mean temp
650heating degree-days (base 18°C)
756cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
23 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 25 °CFM: 23 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 13 °CJA: 13 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 16 °CON: 19 °CND: 22 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 74% 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: 22/100 — 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 #34 largest waste power plant of 50 in Australia by capacity.

Australia has 50 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 189 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -32.1424, 115.7713 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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