POTTER STATION 2

How POTTER STATION 2 compares

With 220 MW of capacity, POTTER STATION 2 ranks 13th among the 125 operating power plants Bywatts maps in Massachusetts and 10th of the 22 operating Natural Gas plants in the state. It accounts for about 4.1% of Massachusetts's operating Natural Gas capacity and 2.4% of all operating capacity in the state. Nationally it is the 533rd-largest of the 1,185 operating Natural Gas plants in the database. Commissioned in 2009, it is newer than 60% of the 122 operating Massachusetts plants with a recorded commissioning year. It shares Norfolk County with 8 other operating plants, including FORE RIVER GENERATING STATION and ANP BELLINGHAM ENERGY PROJECT.

EIA-860 lists 2 generators at the site with 116 MW of nameplate capacity, all natural gas fired combustion turbine technology (this page's HIFLD capacity figure is 220 MW). Net generation was 23.3 GWh in 2024.

Grid neighborhood

The closest transmission line found within 10 miles is a 115 kV line, under 0.1 miles away. Another 20 operating power plants totaling 1,712 MW sit within 25 miles; the largest is FORE RIVER GENERATING STATION (872 MW, Natural Gas). Within 50 miles are 4 mapped data centers; the nearest is Markley Group One Summer Street Boston in Boston, about 9.5 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