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Ascutney

Other power plant · Windsor County, Vermont

Nameplate capacity
13 MW
Rank in Vermont
#17
of 117 plants
In service since
1961
August 1961

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Petroleum Liquids
Operator
Green Mountain Power Corp
County
Windsor County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
1.47%
Rank among other plants in Vermont
#8 of 10
EIA plant code
3708

Generating units

Individual generating units at Ascutney
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GT4Petroleum Liquids13 MW9.0 MW1961Operating

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 Vermont power plants · What Vermont actually generates