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Cataract Hydro

Hydro power plant · York County, Maine

Nameplate capacity
6.6 MW
Rank in Maine
#79
of 274 plants
In service since
1937
January 1937

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC
County
York County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.11%
Rank among hydro plants in Maine
#25 of 48
EIA plant code
1486

Generating units

Individual generating units at Cataract Hydro
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric6.6 MW8.0 MW1937Operating

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 6.6 MW solar plant and a 6.6 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 Maine power plants · What Maine actually generates