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Red Shield Envir Old Town Facility

Other power plant · Penobscot County, Maine · not currently in service

Nameplate capacity
29 MW
Rank in Maine
#36
of 274 plants
In service since
1965
July 1965

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Wood/Wood Waste Biomass
Operator
ND Paper, Inc.
County
Penobscot County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.46%
Rank among other plants in Maine
#9 of 19
EIA plant code
10700

Generating units

Individual generating units at Red Shield Envir Old Town Facility
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
TG6Wood/Wood Waste Biomass16 MW14 MW1987Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year
TG4Wood/Wood Waste Biomass13 MW7.5 MW1965Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year

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 29 MW solar plant and a 29 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