List of power stations in New Hampshire
Sources of New Hampshire utility-scale electricity generation:
full-year 2023[1]
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, sorted by type and name. In 2022, New Hampshire had a total summer capacity of 4,463 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 18,764 GWh.[2] In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 57.9% nuclear, 25.7% natural gas, 7.7% hydroelectric, 4.6% biomass, 2.5% wind, 1% coal, 0.4% petroleum, and 0.3% other. Smaller-scale solar, which includes customer-owned photovoltaic panels, delivered an additional net 299 GWh to New Hampshire's electrical grid in 2023.[1]
During 2019, New Hampshire had two of the three coal power plants, and one of two nuclear power plants operating in New England. More electricity was generated than was consumed in-state. Renewables sources generated 17% of all electrical energy from New Hampshire. Wind generated more electricity than coal for the first time in 2016, while the state did not yet host a utility-scale (larger than 1 MW) solar power plant as of 2019.[3]
Nuclear power stations
[edit]Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Year Opened |
Refs |
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Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant | Rockingham County | 42°53′56″N 70°51′03″W / 42.89889°N 70.85083°W | 1250 | 1990 | [4][5] |
Fossil-fuel power stations
[edit]Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.[6]
Coal-fired
[edit]Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Year Opened |
Scheduled Retirement |
Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Merrimack Station | Merrimack County |
43°08′28″N 71°28′09″W / 43.1411°N 71.4692°W | 460 | 1960 (Unit 1- 114MW) 1968 (Unit 2- 346MW) |
June 2028 | [7][8][9][10][11] |
Schiller Station | Rockingham County |
43°05′52″N 70°47′03″W / 43.0978°N 70.7842°W | 100 | 1949 (Unit 1- 20MW[A]) 1949 (Unit 2- 20MW[A]) 1949 (Unit 3- ??MW) 1952 (Unit 4- 50MW) 1955 (Unit 5- 50MW) 1957 (Unit 6- 50MW) |
1968 (Unit 1- closed) 1968 (Unit 2- closed) 1991 (Unit 3- closed) 2025 (Unit 4- idled 2020[12][13]) 2006 (Unit 5- convert to wood) 2025 (Unit 6- idled 2020[12][13]) |
[7][14][15] |
A Schiller Units 1 & 2 operated in binary mercury-steam Rankine cycle configuration which was an early type of combined cycle configuration.[16]
Natural gas-fired
[edit]Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Generation Type |
Year Opened |
Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Essential Power Newington | Rockingham County | 43°06′17″N 70°48′22″W / 43.1047°N 70.8061°W | 605.5 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | 2002 | [17][18] |
Granite Ridge Energy Center | Rockingham County | 42°54′15″N 71°25′34″W / 42.9042°N 71.4261°W | 745.0 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | 2003 | [19][20] |
Hampton Facility Gas Plant | Rockingham County | 42°56′18″N 70°50′26″W / 42.9383°N 70.8406°W | 5.0 | Simple Cycle | 2000 | [21] |
Newington Power Plant | Rockingham County | 43°06′00″N 70°47′27″W / 43.1000°N 70.7908°W | 414.0 | Steam Turbine | 1974 | [22][23] |
Petroleum-fired
[edit]Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Generation Type |
Year Opened |
Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dartmouth College Cogen Plant | Grafton County | 43°42′07″N 72°17′12″W / 43.7019°N 72.2867°W | 7.0 | Steam Turbine (x3) | 1970 (4.0MW) 1992 (3.0MW) |
[24][25] |
Lost Nation Plant | Coos County | 44°35′42″N 71°29′40″W / 44.5951°N 71.4944°W | 18.0 | Simple Cycle | 1969 | [26][27] |
Merrimack Station | Merrimack County |
43°08′28″N 71°28′09″W / 43.1411°N 71.4692°W | 37.2 | Simple Cycle (x2) | 1968/1969 | [8] |
Plymouth College Cogen Plant | Grafton County | 43°45′52″N 71°41′17″W / 43.7644°N 71.6881°W | 2.8 | Reciprocating Engine (x2) | 1994 (1.2MW) 2000 (1.6MW) |
[28][29] |
Schiller Station | Rockingham County | 43°05′52″N 70°47′03″W / 43.0978°N 70.7842°W | 21.2 | Simple Cycle | 1970 | [14][15] |
White Lake Plant | Carroll County | 43°50′52″N 71°12′25″W / 43.8478°N 71.2069°W | 18.6 | Simple Cycle | 1968 | [30][31] |
Renewable power stations
[edit]Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.[6]
Biomass and Municipal Waste
[edit]Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Primary Fuel |
Generation Type |
Year Opened |
Status | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bridgewater Power Plant | Grafton County | 43°42′56″N 71°39′31″W / 43.7155°N 71.6585°W | 20 | wood chips | Steam Turbine | 1987 | [32][33] | |
Burgess Biopower | Coos County | 44°28′19″N 71°10′31″W / 44.4719°N 71.1753°W | 75 | wood waste | Steam Turbine | 2013 | Bankrupt in 2024.[34] | [35] |
D G Whitefield Plant | Coos County | 44°21′29″N 71°32′42″W / 44.3580°N 71.5449°W | 16 | wood waste | Steam Turbine | 1988 | idled 2019[36] | [37][38][39] |
Indeck Energy Alexandria Plant | Grafton County | 43°33′39″N 71°46′50″W / 43.5608°N 71.7806°W | 15 | wood waste | Steam Turbine | 2008 | idled 2017[40][41] | [42] |
Nashua Plant | Hillsborough County | 42°43′56″N 71°31′21″W / 42.7323°N 71.5224°W | 2.4 | landfill gas | Reciprocating Engine (x2) | 1996/2016 | [43] | |
Pinetree Power Plant | Grafton County | 44°19′39″N 71°40′48″W / 44.3274°N 71.6800°W | 17.5 | wood waste | Steam Turbine | 1986 | [44] | |
Pinetree Power Tamworth Plant | Caroll County | 43°50′09″N 71°11′48″W / 43.8358°N 71.1967°W | 25 | wood waste | Steam Turbine | 1987 | [45] | |
Schiller Station | Rockingham County | 43°05′52″N 70°47′03″W / 43.0978°N 70.7842°W | 50 | wood | Steam Turbine | 2006 | idled 2020[12][13] | [14][15][46] |
Springfield Power Plant | Sullivan County | 43°26′34″N 72°03′22″W / 43.4429°N 72.0560°W | 20 | wood waste | Steam Turbine | 1987 | idled 2019[36] | [38] |
Turnkey Landfill Gas Plant | Strafford County | 43°14′30″N 70°57′59″W / 43.2416°N 70.9664°W | 9.2 | landfill gas | Reciprocating Engine (x4) Simple Cycle (x2) |
1992/1993 1997 |
[47] | |
UNH Landfill Gas Plant | Strafford County | 43°08′12″N 70°56′10″W / 43.1367°N 70.9361°W | 7.9 | landfill gas | Simple Cycle | 2009 | [48] | |
Wheelabrator Claremont Facility | Sullivan County | 43°20′38″N 72°22′38″W / 43.3440°N 72.3773°W | 4.5 | municipal solid waste | Steam Turbine | 1989 | closed 2013[49] | [50] |
Wheelabrator Concord Facility | Merrimack County | 43°17′12″N 71°34′37″W / 43.2866°N 71.5769°W | 14 | municipal solid waste (biogenic and non-biogenic) |
Steam Turbine | 1989 | [51][52] |
Hydroelectric
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Wind
[edit]Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Number of Turbines |
Year Opened | Turbine Mfg Spec |
Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Antrim Wind Project | Hillsborough County | 43°03′52″N 72°00′23″W / 43.0644°N 72.0064°W | 28.8 | 9 | 2019 | Siemens 3.2MW | [74][75][76] |
Granite Reliable Wind Farm | Coos County | 44°42′16″N 71°17′33″W / 44.7044°N 71.2925°W | 99 | 33 | 2011 | Vestas 3.0MW | [77] |
Groton Wind Power Project | Grafton County | 43°46′05″N 71°49′08″W / 43.7681°N 71.8189°W | 48 | 24 | 2012 | Gamesa 2.0MW | [78][79] |
Jericho Mountain Wind Farm | Coos County | 44°28′01″N 71°13′30″W / 44.4669°N 71.2250°W | 14.3 | 5 | 2015 | GE 2.85MW | [80] |
Lempster Mountain Wind Power Project | Sullivan County | 43°13′59″N 72°08′44″W / 43.2330°N 72.1455°W | 24 | 12 | 2008 | Gamesa 2.0MW | [81][82] |
Solar
[edit]Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MWAC) | Year Opened |
Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peterborough Wastewater Treatment Solar Array | Hillsborough County | 42°54′40″N 71°55′58″W / 42.9112°N 71.9328°W | 0.8 (0.94MWDC) | 2015 | [83] |
Storage power stations
[edit]New Hampshire had no utility-scale battery or pumped-storage facilities in 2019.[6]
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