Coal power plant in Ohio, United States of America. Approximate location 41.7265, -81.254.
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Painesville is a 56 MW coal power plant in Ohio, United States of America. It is operated by City of Painesville. Based on reported annual generation of 3 GWh, it can supply roughly 771 homes. It ranks #2612 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1972, it is around 54 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 123,225 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 28,724 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0002936.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by City of Painesville.
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 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 42% 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: 75/100 — 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.
The #249 largest coal power plant of 286 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 286 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 249,149 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.7265, -81.254 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
