KENDALL SQUARE STATION

How KENDALL SQUARE STATION compares

With 274 MW of capacity, KENDALL SQUARE STATION ranks 11th among the 125 operating power plants Bywatts maps in Massachusetts and 8th of the 22 operating Natural Gas plants in the state. It accounts for about 5.1% of Massachusetts's operating Natural Gas capacity and 2.9% of all operating capacity in the state. Nationally it is the 484th-largest of the 1,185 operating Natural Gas plants in the database. Commissioned in 1958, it is older than 81% of the 122 operating Massachusetts plants with a recorded commissioning year. It shares Middlesex County with 7 other operating plants, including BOOTT HYDROPOWER and MASS INST TECH CNTRL UTILITIES/COGEN PLT.

EIA-860 lists 3 generators at the site with 235 MW of nameplate capacity, mainly natural gas fired combined cycle technology (this page's HIFLD capacity figure is 274 MW). Net generation was 1,583 GWh in 2024 (a 77% capacity factor), up 27% from 2022. Its generators came online between 1958 and 2002.

Grid neighborhood

The closest transmission line found within 10 miles is a 115 kV line owned by NSTAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, about 0.6 miles away. Another 23 operating power plants totaling 1,845 MW sit within 25 miles; the largest is FORE RIVER GENERATING STATION (872 MW, Natural Gas). Within 50 miles are 5 mapped data centers; the nearest is Lumen Boston in Cambridge, about 0.5 miles away.

Computed by Bywatts from HIFLD power plant and transmission line records, EIA-860/923 survey data and PeeringDB data center locations; distances are straight-line. Sources and methodology