Nameplate capacity
56 MW
Rank in Ohio
#70
of 219 plants
In service since
1949
January 1949
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- City of Painesville
- County
- Lake County
- Generating units
- 5
- Share of state capacity
- 0.16%
- Rank among coal plants in Ohio
- #6 of 7
- EIA plant code
- 2936
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Conventional Steam Coal | 22 MW | 18 MW | 1990 | Operating |
| 5 | Conventional Steam Coal | 17 MW | 16 MW | 1965 | Operating |
| 3 | Conventional Steam Coal | 7.5 MW | 7.0 MW | 1953 | Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used |
| ST2 | Conventional Steam Coal | 7.5 MW | 7.0 MW | 1949 | Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used |
| WPCP1 | Petroleum Liquids | 2.0 MW | 1.8 MW | 2010 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Ohio
| Middletown Coke Company, LLC | Natural gas | 67 MW |
| Hog Creek Wind Project | Wind | 66 MW |
| Blue Harvest Solar Park | Solar | 50 MW |
| Clinton Solar (OH) | Solar | 50 MW |
About this data
From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 56 MW solar plant and a 56 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.
“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Ohio power plants · What Ohio actually generates