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Charlestown Wind Turbine

Wind power plant · Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Nameplate capacity
1.5 MW
Rank in Massachusetts
#558
of 686 plants
In service since
2011
October 2011

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
MWRA Charlestown
County
Suffolk County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among wind plants in Massachusetts
#17 of 20
EIA plant code
58065

Generating units

Individual generating units at Charlestown Wind Turbine
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
CWT1Onshore Wind Turbine1.5 MW1.5 MW2011Operating

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 1.5 MW solar plant and a 1.5 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 Massachusetts power plants · What Massachusetts actually generates