NIH Cogeneration Facility
Natural gas power plant · Montgomery County, Maryland
Nameplate capacity
28 MW
Rank in Maryland
#33
of 234 plants
In service since
2018
November 2018
Details
- Primary fuel
- Natural gas
- Technology
- Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
- Operator
- National Institutes of Health
- County
- Montgomery County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.21%
- Rank among natural gas plants in Maryland
- #10 of 15
- EIA plant code
- 56668
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGT | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | 28 MW | 28 MW | 2018 | 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
| Fair Wind | Wind | 30 MW |
| Fairview Farms | Solar | 30 MW |
| Ripley | Solar | 28 MW |
| Maryland Solar | Solar | 27 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 28 MW solar plant and a 28 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