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Wyndham

Waste power plant in Victoria, Australia. Approximate location -37.9375, 144.5902.

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Wyndham is a 1 MW waste power plant in Victoria, Australia. It is operated by LMS Energy. Based on reported annual generation of 14 GWh, it can supply roughly 4,114 homes. It ranks #509 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

1MW installed capacity
14GWh reported / yr
4,114homes powered

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000066.

Reported generation trend

2013: 7 GWh20132014: 10 GWh20142015: 15 GWh20152016: 15 GWh20162017: 15 GWh20172018: 14 GWh201815 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by LMS Energy. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 37.9°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.6°Cannual mean temp
1,352heating degree-days (base 18°C)
95cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
14 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 19 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 18 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 10 °CJJ: 10 °CJA: 10 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 14 °CON: 15 °CND: 18 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 45% 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: 31/100 — 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 #50 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 -37.9375, 144.5902 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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