List of power stations in Maryland
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Sources of Maryland utility-scale electricity generation in gigawatt-hours, full-year 2025:[1]
- Natural gas: 16,015 (42.5%)
- Nuclear: 14,795 (39.3%)
- Coal: 2,294 (6.09%)
- Hydroelectric: 1,575 (4.18%)
- Solar: 1,329 (3.53%)
- Wind: 685 (1.82%)
- Petroleum: 381 (1.01%)
- Biomass: 297 (0.79%)
- Other: 300 (0.80%)
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Maryland, sorted by type and name. In 2024, Maryland had a total summer capacity of 11.7 GW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 35,425 GWh.[2] In 2025, the electrical energy generation mix was 42.5% natural gas, 39.3% nuclear, 6.1% coal, 4.2% hydroelectric, 3.5% solar, 1.8% wind, 1% petroleum, 0.8% biomass, and 0.8% other. Small-scale solar, which includes customer-owned PV panels, delivered an additional net 1,681 GWh of energy to Maryland's electrical grid in 2025. This was about 25 percent more than the generation of the state's utility-scale PV plants.[1]
Maryland power grid
Maryland electricity generation by type
| 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
Coal
| Name | Location | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Year opened |
Scheduled closure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Shores Generating Station | Anne Arundel County, Maryland | 1,370 | Talen Energy | 1984 | 2029[4] |
Retired coal
| 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[5] |
| 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[6] |
| Chalk Point Generating Station | Eagle Harbor, Maryland | 728 | NRG Energy | 1964 | June 2021[7] |
| Warrior Run Generating Station | Cumberland, Maryland | 229 | AES Corporation | 2000 | June 2024 [8] |
Natural gas
| 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 | Decommissioned |
| 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[9] | Charles | 746 | CPV Maryland | 2017 | |
| Westport Generating Station | Baltimore City | 121 | Constellation Power | 1969 | Decommissioned 1993 |
Petroleum
- 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
