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Upper Androscoggin

Hydro power plant · Androscoggin County, Maine · not currently in service

Nameplate capacity
1.6 MW
Rank in Maine
#253
of 274 plants
In service since
2020
April 2020

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Lewiston City of
County
Androscoggin County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.03%
Rank among hydro plants in Maine
#40 of 48
EIA plant code
54202

Generating units

Individual generating units at Upper Androscoggin
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric0.7 MW0.7 MW2020Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year
2Conventional Hydroelectric0.5 MW0.5 MW2020Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year
3Conventional Hydroelectric0.4 MW0.5 MW2020Out 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 1.6 MW solar plant and a 1.6 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