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Wadsworth IPS RTO BTM

Oil power plant in Ohio, United States. Approximate location 41.0863, -81.7274.

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Wadsworth IPS RTO BTM is a 11 MW oil power plant in Ohio, United States. It is operated by American Municipal Power Inc. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,109 homes (estimated). It ranks #83 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 7,093 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,653 cars driven for a year.

11MW installed capacity
8,109homes powered (est.)
7,093t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1619.

7,093 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,653passenger cars driven for a year
925homes' yearly energy use
118,217tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest oil plants in United States

Quakertown PA BTM: 11 MW11Quakertown…Wadsworth HBS RTO BTM: 11 MW11Wadsworth …Wadsworth IPS RTO BTM: 11 MW11Wadsworth …Greenfield Light Plant: 5 MW5Greenfield…Connersville: 0 MW0Connersvil…Miami Wabash: 0 MW0Miami Waba…Centerville: 0 MW0CentervilleExelon L Street: 0 MW0Exelon L S…

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

Owner

Operated by American Municipal Power Inc. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.9°Cannual mean temp
3,241heating degree-days (base 18°C)
292cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
307 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 5 °CND: -1 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 32% 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: 69/100 — 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 #3 largest oil power plant of 16 in United States by capacity.

United States has 16 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 37 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.0863, -81.7274 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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