Brandon Shores
Coal power plant · Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Nameplate capacity
1,370 MW
Rank in Maryland
#3
of 234 plants
In service since
1984
May 1984
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Brandon Shores LLC
- County
- Anne Arundel County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 10.31%
- Rank among coal plants in Maryland
- #1 of 1
- EIA plant code
- 602
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 685 MW | 635 MW | 1984 | Operating |
| 2 | Conventional Steam Coal | 685 MW | 638 MW | 1991 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Maryland
| Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant | Nuclear | 1,850 MW |
| Chalk Point Power | Natural gas | 1,825 MW |
| Wildcat Point Generation Facility | Natural gas | 1,114 MW |
| Key | Natural gas | 831 MW |
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 1,370 MW solar plant and a 1,370 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 Maryland power plants · What Maryland actually generates