Retired oil power-station site in Maryland, United States of America. Approximate location 38.5868, -77.1731.
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Goddard Steam Plant is a retired oil power station in Maryland, United States of America. Its current lifecycle status is “Retired” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. It ranks #5405 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 0.7% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1884.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: EIA-860M May 2026 retired generator inventory, summed by Plant ID; fuel: Climate TRACE
At 12.4 MW, Goddard Steam Plant is well above the median oil plant in United States of America (7.2 MW). Its lifecycle status is Retired; it no longer generates electricity. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #317 largest oil power plant of 902 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 902 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 40,022 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 38.5868, -77.1731 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Goddard Steam Plant was a oil-fired power station in Maryland, United States of America and was retired.
