WPS Power Niagara

WPS Power Niagara is an biomass power plant in New York, United States. It ranks #186 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1842.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in United States

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

Local climate & thermal context

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 43.1°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 48% 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: 79/100 — 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

United States has 30 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 302 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Covanta Niagara I LLC · Waste · 50 MW · New York
• Reworld Niagara I · Waste · 50 MW · New York
• Lewiston Niagara · Hydro · 240 MW · New York
• Robert Moses Niagara · Hydro · 2,429 MW · New York
• Sir Adam Beck 2 · Hydro · 1,499 MW · New York
• Sir Adam Beck 1 · Hydro · 450 MW · New York

Location

Coordinates 43.0804, -79.0082 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.