Petcoke power plant in Ohio, United States of America. Approximate location 41.6917, -83.4378.
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FirstEnergy Bay Shore is a 171 MW petcoke power station in Ohio, United States of America. It is operated by Walleye Power LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 681 GWh, it can supply roughly 194k homes. It ranks #2181 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1956, it is around 70 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its annual emissions of 1,219,133 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 284k cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0002878.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000104100); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 171 MW, FirstEnergy Bay Shore is well above the median petcoke plant in United States of America (68 MW). This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per US EPA GHGRP (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Walleye Power LLC.
This petcoke plant generates electricity for the grid. 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.
Monthly mean temperature
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.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #2 largest petcoke power plant of 11 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 11 petcoke power plants in this dataset, together about 2,366 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.6917, -83.4378 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
FirstEnergy Bay Shore is a 171 MW source-record petcoke power plant in Ohio, United States of America, commissioned in 1956.
FirstEnergy Bay Shore generates about 681 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 194,485 homes.
FirstEnergy Bay Shore is operated by Walleye Power LLC.
FirstEnergy Bay Shore has measured emissions of about 1,219,133 tonnes of CO₂ per year (US EPA GHGRP).
