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Brown Station Road Plant I

Other power plant · Prince Georges County, Maryland

Nameplate capacity
2.7 MW
Rank in Maryland
#79
of 234 plants
In service since
1987
October 1987

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Landfill Gas
Operator
Prince George's County
County
Prince Georges County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among other plants in Maryland
#17 of 19
EIA plant code
50060

Generating units

Individual generating units at Brown Station Road Plant I
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
3972Landfill Gas0.9 MW0.8 MW1987Out of service but expected to return to service in next calendar year
9314Landfill Gas0.9 MW0.8 MW1987Out of service but expected to return to service in next calendar year
9340Landfill Gas0.9 MW0.8 MW1987Out of service but 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 2.7 MW solar plant and a 2.7 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