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Searsburg

Hydro power plant · Bennington County, Vermont

Nameplate capacity
4.0 MW
Rank in Vermont
#47
of 117 plants
In service since
2022
March 2022

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Great River Hydro, LLC
County
Bennington County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.44%
Rank among hydro plants in Vermont
#19 of 45
EIA plant code
6529

Generating units

Individual generating units at Searsburg
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Conventional Hydroelectric4.0 MW4.5 MW2022Operating

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 4.0 MW solar plant and a 4.0 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