West Station (DE)
Other power plant · New Castle County, Delaware
Nameplate capacity
16 MW
Rank in Delaware
#13
of 39 plants
In service since
1964
June 1964
Details
- Primary fuel
- Other
- Technology
- Petroleum Liquids
- Operator
- Calpine Mid-Atlantic Generation LLC
- County
- New Castle County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.54%
- Rank among other plants in Delaware
- #4 of 7
- EIA plant code
- 597
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEST | Petroleum Liquids | 16 MW | 15 MW | 1964 | Standby/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.
Similarly sized plants in Delaware
| Indian River Generating Station | Other | 19 MW |
| Delaware City 10 | Other | 19 MW |
| Milford Solar Farm | Solar | 12 MW |
| Dover Sun Park | Solar | 10 MW |
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 16 MW solar plant and a 16 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