Coal power plant in Pennsylvania, United States. Approximate location 40.6348, -80.4159.
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FirstEnergy Bruce Mansfield is an coal power plant in Pennsylvania, United States. It is operated by Shippingport Power Station LLC. It ranks #252 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-2057.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Shippingport Power Station LLC.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.6°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 27% 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: 66/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.
United States has 45 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 28 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.6348, -80.4159 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
