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Foster Wheeler Mt Carmel Cogen

Coal power plant · Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Nameplate capacity
47 MW
Rank in Pennsylvania
#101
of 273 plants
In service since
1990
January 1990

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
Mount Carmel Cogen Inc
County
Northumberland County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.09%
Rank among coal plants in Pennsylvania
#12 of 13
EIA plant code
10343

Generating units

Individual generating units at Foster Wheeler Mt Carmel Cogen
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
TG1Conventional Steam Coal47 MW43 MW1990Operating

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 47 MW solar plant and a 47 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 Pennsylvania power plants · What Pennsylvania actually generates