The Rock Springs Generation Facility is a 684 MW natural gas-fired electric generating

peaking plant Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. Because they supply power only occasionally, the power ...

located in

Rising Sun, Maryland Rising Sun is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,781 at the 2010 census. History The town which became known as Rising Sun was located in the disputed “Nottingham Lots” along the border between colonial Pen ...

. The plant comprises four gas turbines and went online in 2003. The plant was originally co-owned by

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is an electric generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia. ODEC provides wholesale power to its 11 member electric cooperatives in the states of Virginia, Maryland, and ...

and

Consolidated Edison Consolidated Edison, Inc., commonly known as Con Edison (stylized as conEdison) or ConEd, is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, with approximately $12 billion in annual revenues as of 2017, and over $62 b ...

, and was sold to AllCapital and Industry Funds Management in 2007.

The Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and pri ...

, an asset management company, acquired the plant in 2016.

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Natural gas-fired power stations in Maryland Buildings and structures in Cecil County, Maryland {{Maryland-struct-stub

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