Wyman Hydro

Hydro power plant in Maine, United States of America. Approximate location 45.0703, -69.9064.

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Wyman Hydro is a 72 MW hydro power plant in Maine, United States of America. It is operated by Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 391 GWh, it can supply roughly 111,742 homes. It ranks #2366 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1933, it is around 93 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 5.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

72MW installed capacity
391GWh reported / yr
111,742homes powered
1933commissioned (~93 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0001511.

Reported generation trend

2013: 383 GWh20132014: 384 GWh20142015: 369 GWh20152016: 299 GWh20162017: 413 GWh20172018: 353 GWh20182019: 391 GWh2019413 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.5°Cannual mean temp
4,571heating degree-days (base 18°C)
53cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
158 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -10 °CJF: -8 °CFM: -2 °CMA: 5 °CAM: 11 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 19 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 7 °CON: 2 °CND: -6 °CD19 °C

Heating degree-days here run 86% 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: 91/100 — 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 #243 largest hydro power plant of 1449 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1449 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 101,657 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 45.0703, -69.9064 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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