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South Windsor Fuel Cell

Natural gas power plant · Hartford County, Connecticut

Nameplate capacity
5.0 MW
Rank in Connecticut
#72
of 184 plants
In service since
2020
March 2020

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Other Natural Gas
Operator
South Energy Investments LLC
County
Hartford County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.05%
Rank among natural gas plants in Connecticut
#26 of 47
EIA plant code
63302

Generating units

Individual generating units at South Windsor Fuel Cell
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
SWFC5Other Natural Gas5.0 MW5.0 MW2020Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 5.0 MW solar plant and a 5.0 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Connecticut power plants · What Connecticut actually generates