Cherry Street
Natural gas power plant · Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Details
- Primary fuel
- Natural gas
- Technology
- Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine
- Operator
- Town of Hudson - (MA)
- County
- Middlesex County
- Generating units
- 3
- Share of state capacity
- 0.09%
- Rank among natural gas plants in Massachusetts
- #24 of 40
- EIA plant code
- 9038
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine | 5.6 MW | 4.9 MW | 1972 | Operating |
| 8 | Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine | 4.0 MW | 3.4 MW | 1956 | Operating |
| 7 | Petroleum Liquids | 3.3 MW | 2.5 MW | 1951 | Operating |
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 13 MW solar plant and a 13 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