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Schuylkill Generating Station

Other power plant · Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Nameplate capacity
40 MW
Rank in Pennsylvania
#105
of 273 plants
In service since
1969
May 1969

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Petroleum Liquids
Operator
Constellation Power, Inc
County
Philadelphia County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.07%
Rank among other plants in Pennsylvania
#15 of 58
EIA plant code
3169

Generating units

Individual generating units at Schuylkill Generating Station
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
11Petroleum Liquids21 MW17 MW1971Operating
10Petroleum Liquids19 MW13 MW1969Operating

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 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 Pennsylvania power plants · What Pennsylvania actually generates