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Bay View Cogeneration Facility

Waste power plant in Ohio, United States of America. Approximate location 41.6883, -83.4847.

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Bay View Cogeneration Facility is a 12 MW waste power plant in Ohio, United States of America. It is operated by COT/Division of Water Reclamation. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16,518 homes (estimated). It ranks #4348 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2010, it is around 16 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

12MW installed capacity
16,518homes powered (est.)
2010commissioned (~16 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0058263.

Reported generation trend

2013: 6 GWh20132014: 5 GWh20142015: 0 GWh20156 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by COT/Division of Water Reclamation. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.8°Cannual mean temp
3,334heating degree-days (base 18°C)
352cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
185 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 5 °CND: -1 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 36% 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: 72/100 — 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 #196 largest waste power plant of 541 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 541 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 9,768 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.6883, -83.4847 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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