Morgantown Generating Station
Newburg, Maryland
Station Description
The Morgantown Station in Charles County, Md. on the Potomac River has a generating capacity of 1,467 megawatts. The station has units which operate at base load, intermediate, and peak demand levels. Fuel sources are coal and oil. Morgantown Generating Station began service in 1970.
The station’s state-of-the-art air pollution control technologies are part of a state-wide program designed to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) by 90 percent, sulfur dioxide (SO2) by 98 percent and mercury (Hg) by at least 90 percent.