MEDICAL AREA TOTAL ENERGY PLANT

How MEDICAL AREA TOTAL ENERGY PLANT compares

With 88 MW of capacity, MEDICAL AREA TOTAL ENERGY PLANT ranks 22nd among the 125 operating power plants Bywatts maps in Massachusetts and 16th of the 22 operating Natural Gas plants in the state. It accounts for about 1.6% of Massachusetts's operating Natural Gas capacity and 0.9% of all operating capacity in the state. Nationally it is the 705th-largest of the 1,185 operating Natural Gas plants in the database. Commissioned in 1980, it is older than 65% of the 122 operating Massachusetts plants with a recorded commissioning year. It shares Suffolk County with 7 other operating plants, including SOMERSET PLANT and DEER ISLAND TREATMENT PLANT.

EIA-860 lists 10 generators at the site with 95 MW of nameplate capacity, led by natural gas fired combustion turbine technology. Net generation was 318 GWh in 2024 (a 38% capacity factor), down 6% from 2022. Its generators came online between 1980 and 2017.

Grid neighborhood

The closest transmission line found within 10 miles is a 115 kV line owned by NSTAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, about 0.8 miles away. Another 23 operating power plants totaling 2,594 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 2.4 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