Power plants and the grid in Ohio
Ohio has 219 power plants with 33.2 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 17.5 GW. The map shows 120 data centers in Ohio. Its interconnection queue holds 163 active requests for 18.4 GW.
Capacity by fuel
219 power plants with 33.2 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 17.5 GW from 52 plants (53%)
- Coal: 6.7 GW from 7 plants (20%)
- Solar: 4.9 GW from 75 plants (15%)
- Nuclear: 2.1 GW from 2 plants (6%)
- Wind: 1.2 GW from 23 plants (4%)
- Oil: 472 MW from 39 plants (1%)
- Hydro: 97 MW from 4 plants (under 1%)
- Biomass: 93 MW from 13 plants (under 1%)
- Battery storage: 33 MW from 4 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Gavin Power, LLC: Coal, 2.7 GW
- Cardinal: Coal, 1.8 GW
- Guernsey Power Station: Natural gas, 1.8 GW
- Hanging Rock Energy Facility: Natural gas, 1.4 GW
- Perry: Nuclear, 1.2 GW
- South Field Energy: Natural gas, 1.2 GW
- Miami Fort: Coal, 1.1 GW
- Kyger Creek: Coal, 963 MW
- Rolling Hills Generating: Natural gas, 925 MW
- Trumbull Energy Center: Natural gas, 900 MW
Largest plants near Cleveland
- West Lorain: Natural gas, 501 MW, 48 km away
- Cleveland Works: Natural gas, 99 MW, 2 km away
- Painesville: Coal, 49 MW, 47 km away
- West 41st Street: Natural gas, 32 MW, 1 km away
- Oberlin (OH): Natural gas, 18 MW, 48 km away
Largest plants near Cincinnati
- Miami Fort: Coal, 1.1 GW, 30 km away
- Madison: Natural gas, 566 MW, 32 km away
- Woodsdale: Natural gas, 476 MW, 32 km away
- Middletown Energy Center: Natural gas, 463 MW, 35 km away
- Hillcrest Solar: Solar, 200 MW, 49 km away
Largest plants near Columbus
- Fox Squirrel Solar: Solar, 577 MW, 38 km away
- Darby Power, LLC: Natural gas, 480 MW, 32 km away
- Big Plain Solar, LLC: Solar, 196 MW, 31 km away
- Madison Fields Solar Project, LLC: Solar, 180 MW, 44 km away
- Buckeye Solar: Solar, 100 MW, 43 km away
Largest plants near Dayton
- Tait Electric Generating Station: Natural gas, 607 MW, 3 km away
- Madison: Natural gas, 566 MW, 40 km away
- Woodsdale: Natural gas, 476 MW, 40 km away
- Middletown Energy Center: Natural gas, 463 MW, 34 km away
- Dick's Creek: Natural gas, 136 MW, 35 km away
Largest plants near Akron
- Cleveland Works: Natural gas, 99 MW, 47 km away
- Orrville: Coal, 79 MW, 32 km away
- West 41st Street: Natural gas, 32 MW, 48 km away
- Cuyahoga Falls 1: Oil, 14 MW, 9 km away
- Summit Street Power Plant: Natural gas, 12 MW, 17 km away
Largest plants near Toledo
- Davis Besse: Nuclear, 894 MW, 42 km away
- Oregon Clean Energy Center: Natural gas, 818 MW, 11 km away
- Troy Energy LLC: Natural gas, 705 MW, 24 km away
- Fremont Energy Center: Natural gas, 685 MW, 48 km away
- FirstEnergy Bay Shore: Oil, 154 MW, 12 km away
Largest plants near Youngstown
- Trumbull Energy Center: Natural gas, 900 MW, 18 km away
- Middletown- Ohio: Natural gas, 857 MW, 18 km away
- Niles Power Plant: Oil, 26 MW, 11 km away
- Clevelandcliffs Warren: Natural gas, 12 MW, 19 km away
- Niles RTO BTM: Oil, 11 MW, 12 km away
Largest plants near Canton
- Carroll County Energy: Natural gas, 715 MW, 35 km away
- Orrville: Coal, 79 MW, 33 km away
- Dover (OH): Coal, 41 MW, 32 km away
- Cuyahoga Falls 1: Oil, 14 MW, 39 km away
- Summit Street Power Plant: Natural gas, 12 MW, 38 km away
Planned and under construction
25 generators planned, under construction or testing, 3.5 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 2.9 GW
- Wind: 297 MW
- Battery storage: 278 MW
- Hydro: 20 MW
Grid operators
- PJM (ISO or RTO): 219 plants
Data centers
120 data center sites on the map.
- Franklin County: 31 sites
- Licking County: 30 sites
- Butler County: 7 sites
- Hamilton County: 7 sites
- Union County: 6 sites
- Cuyahoga County: 5 sites
- Warren County: 5 sites
- Fairfield County: 4 sites
- Delaware County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Amazon Web Services (25), Google (15), Amazon (7), CyrusOne (7), Meta (7), CenturyLink (5), Quality Technology Services (4), CBTS (3), DartPoints (3), Vantage (3)
Interconnection queue
163 active requests to connect 18.4 GW of new generation and storage, and 20 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 12.6 GW in 126 requests
- Natural gas: 3.6 GW in 16 requests
- Battery storage: 1.5 GW in 15 requests
- Wind: 638 MW in 3 requests
- Other: 34 MW in 3 requests
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain