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Battery Utility of Ohio

Storage power plant in Ohio, United States of America. Approximate location 40.2603, -82.8331.

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Battery Utility of Ohio is a 4 MW storage power plant in Ohio, United States of America. It is operated by Battery Utility of Ohio LLC. Based on reported annual generation of -1 GWh, it can supply roughly -228 homes. It ranks #6463 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

4MW installed capacity
-1GWh reported / yr
-228homes powered
2014commissioned (~12 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0058475.

Reported generation trend

2016: 0 GWh20162017: 0 GWh20172018: -1 GWh20182019: -1 GWh20190 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Battery Utility of Ohio LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This storage plant stores and releases electricity (pumped-hydro or batteries) to balance the grid. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.9°Cannual mean temp
3,219heating degree-days (base 18°C)
287cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
343 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 5 °CND: 0 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 31% 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: 69/100 — 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 #48 largest storage power plant of 104 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 104 storage power plants in this dataset, together about 816 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.2603, -82.8331 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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