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Skelton

Hydro power plant · York County, Maine

Nameplate capacity
17 MW
Rank in Maine
#52
of 274 plants
In service since
1948
January 1948

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Brookfield White Pine Hydro LLC
County
York County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.27%
Rank among hydro plants in Maine
#10 of 48
EIA plant code
1505

Generating units

Individual generating units at Skelton
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric8.4 MW11 MW1948Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric8.4 MW11 MW1948Operating

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 17 MW solar plant and a 17 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