Power plants and the grid in Delaware
Delaware has 44 power plants with 2.9 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 2.7 GW. The map shows 2 data centers in Delaware. Its interconnection queue holds 8 active requests for 505 MW.
Capacity by fuel
44 power plants with 2.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 2.7 GW from 10 plants (91%)
- Solar: 135 MW from 26 plants (5%)
- Oil: 99 MW from 4 plants (3%)
- Biomass: 14 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
- Wind: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Hay Road: Natural gas, 1.1 GW
- Edge Moor: Natural gas, 707 MW
- Garrison Energy Center LLC: Natural gas, 309 MW
- Delaware City Plant: Natural gas, 265 MW
- Energy Center Dover: Natural gas, 103 MW
- Warren F Sam Beasley Generation Station: Natural gas, 98 MW
- Christiana: Oil, 50 MW
- ENGIE Solidago Solar Project - Hybrid: Solar, 50 MW
- Van Sant Station: Natural gas, 42 MW
- Red Lion Energy Center: Natural gas, 25 MW
Planned and under construction
10 generators planned, under construction or testing, 200 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 188 MW
- Battery storage: 13 MW
Grid operators
- PJM (ISO or RTO): 44 plants
Data centers
2 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: IPR International (1), Starwood Digital Ventures (1)
Interconnection queue
8 active requests to connect 505 MW of new generation and storage, and 8 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Battery storage: 350 MW in 2 requests
- Solar: 145 MW in 5 requests
- Other: 10 MW in 1 request
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain