- Combustion
- Wind & solar
- Storage
- Under construction
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Wind & solar
- Storage
- Under construction
- Operating
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Stony Brook
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 2% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Net generation, 2025
- 103,956 MWh
- Grid
- 345 kV to Western Massachusetts Electric Company (ISNE)
- Location
- Hampden County, Massachusetts
- Operated by
- Massachusetts Mun Wholes Electric Co
Output
- Gas
- Oil
Details
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- Technology
- Oil source: “Petroleum Liquids”
- Age
- 45 years since 1981
- Unused energy
- 4,640 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
- 9,998 Btu/kWh 2025
All 9 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| Grid |
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| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
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| Eia status |
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| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 1,039,327 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.022 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 9,997.8 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 103,956 |
| Balancing authority code | ISNE |
Solar array
Solar array
The array area counts panels and inverters only, not buildings, fences or the whole site.
- Array area (acres)
- 28.3
- AC capacity (MW)
- 6.9
- DC capacity (MW)
- 10.4
- Mounting
- Single-axis tracking
- Site type
- Greenfield
- Began operating
- 2018
Ownership
4 companies6| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Mun Wholes Electric Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL WHOLESALE ELECTRIC CO | Owner | 90.8% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| Green Mountain Power Corp | Owner | 8.8% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| Green Mountain Power Corp | Owner | 8.7% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| The Town of Lyndon Elec Dept - (VT) | Owner | 0.4% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Massachusetts Mun Wholes Electric Co | Owner | 89.6% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
7 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · USPVDB · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT) · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- USPVDBMap services and data are available from Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uspvdb
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
Nearby
within 15 mi| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook Postponed | Gas, combined cycle | 0.0 mi | 422 |
| Palmer Renewable Energy Postponed | Biomass | 3.8 mi | 42 |
| Riverside Holyoke Postponed | Hydro | 4.3 mi | 1.1 |
| Hadley Falls Postponed | Hydro | 4.9 mi | 3.5 |
| Chicopee BESS Under construction | Storage | 5.4 mi | 5 |
| Holyoke MA BESS 1 Under construction | Storage | 7.4 mi | 5 |
| Belchertown Solar PV + Battery Project Under construction | Solar + storage | 10.1 mi | 5.6 |
Sources EIA-860M