AES Beaver Valley Partners Beaver Valley — United States of America
Retired coal power-station site in Pennsylvania, United States of America. Approximate location 40.6572, -80.3539.
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AES Beaver Valley Partners Beaver Valley is a retired coal power station in Pennsylvania, United States of America. Its current lifecycle status is “Retired” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. It ranks #2319 of 10,884 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1908.
Data status
Known data
Calculated from dataset
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Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
Data provenance
Source of the capacity and fuel values:
capacity: EIA-860M May 2026 retired generator inventory, summed by Plant ID; fuel: Climate TRACE
In context: how this plant compares
At 149 MW, AES Beaver Valley Partners Beaver Valley is below the median coal plant in United States of America (558 MW). Its lifecycle status is Retired; it no longer generates electricity. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
How it compares & nearby plants
The #623 largest coal power plant of 802 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 802 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 621,194 MW of capacity.
Nearby power plants
- Beaver Valley Generation Plant · Coal · 149 MW · Pennsylvania
- Shell Chemical Appalachia power station · Gas · 310 MW · Pennsylvania
- Beaver Solar LLC · Solar · 1.3 MW · Pennsylvania
- FirstEnergy Bruce Mansfield · Coal · 2,741.1 MW · Pennsylvania
- Bruce Mansfield power station · Gas · 3,641.1 MW · Pennsylvania
- Beaver Valley · Nuclear · 1,917 MW · Pennsylvania
Location
Coordinates 40.6572, -80.3539 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of power plant is AES Beaver Valley Partners Beaver Valley?
AES Beaver Valley Partners Beaver Valley was a coal-fired power station in Pennsylvania, United States of America and was retired.