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Cavendish

Hydro power plant · Windsor County, Vermont

Nameplate capacity
1.7 MW
Rank in Vermont
#102
of 117 plants
In service since
2007
February 2007

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Green Mountain Power Corp
County
Windsor County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.19%
Rank among hydro plants in Vermont
#37 of 45
EIA plant code
3710

Generating units

Individual generating units at Cavendish
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric0.6 MW0.4 MW2007Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric0.6 MW0.4 MW2007Operating
3Conventional Hydroelectric0.5 MW0.3 MW2007Operating

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 1.7 MW solar plant and a 1.7 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