Loraine County Project
BrownfieldOberlin, Lorain, Ohio · Energy Developments, Inc d/b/a EDL
Loraine County Project is a natural gas plant in Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, retired 2023-02-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 27 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Lorain County
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Loraine County Project — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oberlin (OH) | natural gas plant | 2 | 2.3 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Loraine County Project, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH MEDINA | Substation-Adjacent | OH | Medina County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 64.9 |
| UNKNOWN113653 | Substation-Adjacent | OH | Lorain County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 64.5 |
| EC Near Cleveland Works | Greenfield | OH | Cuyahoga | — | — | 3.2 yrs | 63.8 |
| UNKNOWN113152 | Substation-Adjacent | OH | Lorain County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 63.3 |
| BEAVER | Substation-Adjacent | OH | Lorain County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 3.8 yrs | 62.7 |
| EC Near Wadsworth | Greenfield | OH | Medina | — | — | 3.2 yrs | 62.0 |
| EC Near Morton Salt Rittman | Greenfield | OH | Wayne | — | — | 3.2 yrs | 61.9 |
| EC Coal Lorain County | Greenfield | OH | Lorain County | — | — | 3.2 yrs | 61.5 |
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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This page shows a public slice of the GridCensus dataset for Loraine County Project, Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio. Pro and Enterprise plans unlock the full 147,272-site catalog, raw sub-scores, parcel ownership, interconnection-queue detail, saved searches, and programmatic API access.