List of power stations in Maryland
Sources of Maryland utility-scale electricity generation:
full-year 2023[1]
Natural Gas (42.5%)
Nuclear (41.6%)
Hydroelectric (5.2%)
Coal (4.7%)
Solar (2.7%)
Wind (1.3%)
Biomass (0.9%)
Petroleum (0.2%)
Other (0.9%)
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Maryland, sorted by type and name. In 2022, Maryland had a total summer capacity of 11,908 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 37,139 GWh.[2] In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 42.5% natural gas, 41.6% nuclear, 5.2% hydroelectric, 4.7% coal, 2.7% solar, 1.3% wind, 0.9% biomass, 0.2% petroleum, and 0.9% other. Small-scale solar, which includes customer-owned PV panels, delivered an additional net 1,404 GWh of energy to Maryland's electrical grid in 2023. This was nearly 50 percent more than the generation of the state's utility-scale PV plants.[1]
Nuclear plants
[edit]| Name | Location | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant | Calvert County | 1,707.8 | Exelon | 1975/1977 | [3] |
Fossil-fuel plants
[edit]Coal
[edit]| Name | Location | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
Scheduled Closure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Shores Generating Station | Anne Arundel County, Maryland | 1,370 | Talen Energy | 1984 | 2025[4] |
| Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station | Anne Arundel County, Maryland | 495 | Talen Energy | 1956 | 2020 (136MW) 2025 (359MW)[5] |
Retired Coal
[edit]| Name | Location | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
Year retired |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles P. Crane Generating Station | Bowleys Quarters, Maryland | 399 | Avenue Capital Group | 1961 | 2018 |
| Dickerson Generating Station | Montgomery County, Maryland | 588 | NRG Energy | 1959 | August 2020[6] |
| Luke Mill Power Plant | Luke, Maryland | 65 | Verso Corporation | 1958 | 2019 |
| R. Paul Smith Power Station | Williamsport, Maryland | 116 | FirstEnergy | 1927 | 2012 |
| Morgantown Generating Station | Newburg, Maryland | 1,252 | NRG Energy | 1970 | May 2022[7] |
| Chalk Point Generating Station | Eagle Harbor, Maryland | 728 | NRG Energy | 1964 | June 2021[8] |
| Warrior Run Generating Station | Cumberland, Maryland | 229 | AES Corporation | 2000 | June 2024 [9] |
Natural gas
[edit]| Name | Location | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
Current Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chalk Point Generating Station | Prince George's | 1,868 | NRG Energy | 1975/1981/1990/1991 | |
| Dickerson Generating Station | Montgomery | 326 | NRG Energy | 1992 | |
| Gould Street Generating Station | Baltimore City | 103 | Constellation Power | 1952 | Demolition (2020) |
| Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station | Anne Arundel | 133 | H.A. Wagner | 1956 | |
| Notch Cliff Generating Station | Baltimore | 144 | Constellation Power | 1969 | |
| Panda Brandywine Power Plant | Prince Georges's | 289 | KMC Thermo | 1996 | |
| Perryman Generating Station | Harford | 333 | Constellation Power | 1995/2015 | |
| PSEG Keys Energy Center | Prince George's | 755 | PSEG Power | 2018 | |
| Rock Springs Generation Facility | Cecil | 772 | Essential Power Rock Springs | 2003 | |
| St. Charles Energy Center[10] | Charles | 746 | CPV Maryland | 2017 | |
| Westport Generating Station | Baltimore City | 121 | Constellation Power | 1969 | Decommissioned 1993 |
 |
Petroleum
[edit]- Chalk Point Generating Station
- Dickerson Generating Station
- Easton Power Plant
- Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station
- Morgantown Generating Station
- Perryman Generating Station
- Philadelphia Road Generating Station
- Vienna Generating Station
- Westport Generating station
Renewable plants
[edit]Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.[11]
Waste-to-energy
[edit]Wind
[edit]- Criterion Wind Project
- Fair Wind
- Fourmile Ridge
- Roth Rock Wind Farm
Solar
[edit]- Annapolis Solar Park
- Fort Detrick Solar
- Great Bay Solar
- Longview Solar
- Maryland Solar
- Mount Saint Mary's
- Rockfish Solar
- Wye Mills
|
Hydroelectric
[edit]Biomass
[edit]- Back River Waste Water Treatment
- Brown Station Road Plant
- East Correctional Institute
- Eastern Landfill Gas
- Millersville LFG
- Montgomery County Oaks LFG
- Wicomico
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Electricity Data Browser, Net generation for all sectors, Maryland, Fuel Type-Check all, Annual, 2001–23". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ "Maryland Electricity Profile". U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
- ^ "Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant". Exelon. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
- ^ "Sierra Club and Stoney Beach Association statements on Talen Energy's commitment to stop burning coal by the end of 2025". 10 November 2020.
- ^ "Sierra Club and Stoney Beach Association statements on Talen Energy's commitment to stop burning coal by the end of 2025". 10 November 2020.
- ^ "GenOn Will Close Three Coal-Fired Units". 21 May 2020.
- ^ "PJM - Generation Deactivations".
- ^ "GenOn Files to Deactivate Chalk Point Coal Generating Station". 14 August 2020.
- ^ "Western Maryland coal-burning power plant to retire in 2024, becoming state's last to announce closing". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
- ^ "CPV: St. Charles Energy Center".
- ^ Energy Information Administration (15 September 2020). "Form EIA-860 detailed data with previous form data (EIA-860A/860B)". eia.gov. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020.