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Regional Waste Systems

Other power plant · Cumberland County, Maine

Nameplate capacity
13 MW
Rank in Maine
#57
of 274 plants
In service since
1988
June 1988

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Municipal Solid Waste
Operator
Ecomaine
County
Cumberland County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.22%
Rank among other plants in Maine
#14 of 19
EIA plant code
50225

Generating units

Individual generating units at Regional Waste Systems
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
TG1Municipal Solid Waste13 MW12 MW1988Operating

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 13 MW solar plant and a 13 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