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Front Street

Other power plant · Hampden County, Massachusetts

Nameplate capacity
8.1 MW
Rank in Massachusetts
#84
of 686 plants
In service since
1978
January 1978

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Petroleum Liquids
Operator
City of Chicopee - (MA)
County
Hampden County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.06%
Rank among other plants in Massachusetts
#17 of 25
EIA plant code
7396

Generating units

Individual generating units at Front Street
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Petroleum Liquids2.7 MW2.8 MW1978Operating
2Petroleum Liquids2.7 MW2.8 MW1978Operating
3Petroleum Liquids2.7 MW2.8 MW1978Operating

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 8.1 MW solar plant and a 8.1 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