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Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
, sorted by type and name. In 2019, Maryland had a total summer capacity of 14,609 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 39,329 GWh. The corresponding electrical energy generation mix was 38.1% nuclear, 37.1% natural gas, 14.5% coal, 5.6% hydroelectric, 1.3% wind, 1.2% solar, 1.2% biomass, 0.8% non-biogenic waste, and 0.2% petroleum. Small-scale solar, which includes customer-owned PV panels, delivered an additional net 965 GWh of energy to Maryland's electrical grid. This was nearly twice the generation of the state's utility-scale PV plants.


Nuclear plants


Fossil-fuel plants


Coal


Retired Coal


Natural gas


Petroleum

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Chalk Point Generating Station The Chalk Point Generating Station is an electricity-generating plant, comprising oil and natural gas fired units, owned by NRG Energy, located near the town of Eagle Harbor, Maryland, United States, on the Patuxent River. Plant operator GenOn E ...
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Dickerson Generating Station The Dickerson Generating Station is an 853 MW electric generating plant owned by NRG Energy, located approximately two miles west of Dickerson, Maryland. Description The facility consists of three 182 MW coal-fired steam generating plants, two 1 ...
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Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station The Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station is an Power station, electric generating station located on Fort Smallwood Road north of Orchard Beach, Maryland, Orchard Beach in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just east of ...
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Morgantown Generating Station The Morgantown Generating Station is a 1,477 MW electric generating plant owned by GenOn Holdings LLC., located in the unincorporated town of Newburg, Maryland, near Morgantown, on the Potomac River. The station was built in 1970.GenOn Ene ...
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Perryman Generating Station The Perryman Generating Station is a 353 MW electric generating peaking power plant owned by Constellation Energy, located in Baltimore, Maryland. Perryman has five units; four are oil-fired, and one is natural gas-fired.Exelon (2015)"Perryman Ge ...
* Philadelphia Road Generating Station *
Vienna Generating Station The Vienna Generating Station is a 167 MW Fuel oil, oil-fired Electricity generation, electric generating plant owned by NRG Energy, located in Vienna, Maryland.NRG Energy (2014)"Our Assets."/ref> See also *List of power stations in Maryland Ref ...
* Westport Generating station


Renewable plants

Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.


Waste-to-energy

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Montgomery County Resource Recovery Facility The Dickerson Generating Station is an 853 MW electric generating plant owned by NRG Energy, located approximately two miles west of Dickerson, Maryland. Description The facility consists of three 182 MW coal-fired steam generating plants, two 1 ...
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Wheelabrator Incinerator Wheelabrator Baltimore is a waste-to-energy incinerator located in the Westport neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland and is operated by Wheelabrator Technologies, a subsidiary of Energy Capital Partners. It has an electric generation capacity of 64 ...


Wind

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Criterion Wind Project The Criterion Wind Project is a wind farm located on Backbone Mountain east of Oakland, Maryland, United States. The project has a rated capacity of 70 MW and uses 28 Liberty Wind Turbines manufactured by Clipper Windpower. Each of the wind turb ...
*Fair Wind *Fourmile Ridge *Roth Rock Wind Farm


Solar

*Annapolis Solar Park *Fort Detrick Solar *Great Bay Solar *Longview Solar *Maryland Solar *Mount Saint Mary's *Rockfish Solar *Wye Mills


Hydroelectric

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Conowingo Dam The Conowingo Dam (also Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant, Conowingo Hydroelectric Station) is a large hydroelectric dam in the lower Susquehanna River near the town of Conowingo, Maryland. The medium-height, masonry gravity dam is one of the larges ...
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Deep Creek Dam The Deep Creek Dam located about 8 miles north of Oakland, Maryland, consists of an earth and rockwall dam across a tributary of the Youghiogheny River that was completed in 1925 by the Pennsylvania Electric Company. Construction of the dam creat ...


Biomass

* Back River Waste Water Treatment * Brown Station Road Plant * East Correctional Institute * Eastern Landfill Gas * Millersville LFG * Montgomery County Oaks LFG * Wicomico


See also

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List of power stations in the United States The United States is home to a wide variety of power stations. The list below outlines power stations of significance by type, or by the state in which they reside. By type The following pages lists the power stations in the United States by ty ...


References

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Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...