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Power plant · Oil Operating

Commissioned: 1978
Net generation, 2025: 1,226 MWh
Grid: 14 kV to City of Chicopee - (MA) (ISNE)
Location: Hampden County, Massachusetts
Operated by: City of Chicopee - (MA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Net generation MWh by year, 2002 to 2025

Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2002 to 2025

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Technology: Oil source: “Petroleum Liquids”
Age: 48 years since 1978
Unused energy: 70 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
Heat rate: 10,480 Btu/kWh 2025

All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Attributes
Attribute	Value
Grid	Nerc region NPCC Report year 2025 Grid voltage kv 13.80 Transmission owner City of Chicopee - (MA) Balancing authority code ISNE Balancing authority name ISO New England Inc.
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025	12,849
Capacity factor, 2025	0.017
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025	10,480.4
Net generation (MWh), 2025	1,226
Balancing authority code	ISNE

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Sources

EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Projects within 15 mi, nearest first.
Project	Kind	Away	MW
Chicopee BESS Under construction	Storage	2.1 mi	5
Palmer Renewable Energy Postponed	Biomass	2.3 mi	42
Holyoke MA BESS 1 Under construction	Storage	3.3 mi	5
Riverside Holyoke Postponed	Hydro	3.6 mi	1.1
Hadley Falls Postponed	Hydro	4.4 mi	3.5
Stony Brook Postponed	Gas, combined cycle	5.4 mi	422

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