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Edge Moor

Natural gas power plant · New Castle County, Delaware

Nameplate capacity
710 MW
Rank in Delaware
#2
of 39 plants
In service since
1954
December 1954

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Natural Gas Steam Turbine
Operator
Calpine Mid-Atlantic Generation LLC
County
New Castle County
Generating units
4
Share of state capacity
23.48%
Rank among natural gas plants in Delaware
#2 of 10
EIA plant code
593

Generating units

Individual generating units at Edge Moor
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
5Natural Gas Steam Turbine446 MW438 MW1973Operating
4Natural Gas Steam Turbine177 MW171 MW1966Operating
3Natural Gas Steam Turbine75 MW86 MW1954Operating
10Petroleum Liquids13 MW12 MW1963Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used

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 710 MW solar plant and a 710 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 Delaware power plants · What Delaware actually generates