Wheelabrator North Andover
Other power plant · Essex County, Massachusetts
Details
- Primary fuel
- Other
- Technology
- Municipal Solid Waste
- Operator
- Wheelabrator Environmental Systems
- County
- Essex County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.29%
- Rank among other plants in Massachusetts
- #11 of 25
- EIA plant code
- 50877
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Municipal Solid Waste | 40 MW | 30 MW | 1985 | 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 Massachusetts
| Mass Inst Tech Cntrl Utilities/Cogen Plt | Natural gas | 43 MW |
| Exelon Framingham LLC | Other | 43 MW |
| Hadley Falls | Hydro | 33 MW |
| Cobble Mountain | Hydro | 33 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 40 MW solar plant and a 40 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