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Clyde Peaking Engine

Gas power plant in Ohio, United States. Approximate location 41.2933, -82.9653.

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Clyde Peaking Engine is a 10 MW gas power plant in Ohio, United States. It is operated by AEP OnSite Partners LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 11,262 homes (estimated). It ranks #86 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 14,531 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 3,387 cars driven for a year.

10MW installed capacity
11,262homes powered (est.)
14,531t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1505.

14,531 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

3,387passenger cars driven for a year
1,895homes' yearly energy use
242,183tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by AEP OnSite Partners LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.7°Cannual mean temp
3,316heating degree-days (base 18°C)
317cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
234 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 5 °CND: -1 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 35% 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: 71/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #62 largest gas power plant of 125 in United States by capacity.

United States has 125 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,886 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.2933, -82.9653 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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