How big is Brandon Shores?

Brandon Shores has a reported capacity of 1,370.2 MW. Source: EIA Form 860.

What kind of plant is Brandon Shores?

Brandon Shores is a Conventional Steam Coal facility in Anne Arundel County, MD, participating in the PJM market.

Where is Brandon Shores located?

Brandon Shores is in Anne Arundel County, MD, inside the PJM balancing area.

Who operates Brandon Shores?

Brandon Shores is operated by Brandon Shores LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.

How much electricity does Brandon Shores generate?

Brandon Shores reported 2,805.3 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-04. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.

Where does Brandon Shores connect to the grid?

Brandon Shores interconnects at Brandon Shores 230 kV substation.

How does Brandon Shores compare to other plants?

By capacity, Brandon Shores ranks #50 of 206 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #1 of 1 in MD.

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Conventional Steam CoalPJM · Anne Arundel County

Brandon Shores

Anne Arundel County · PJM

Brandon Shores is a coal-fired power facility with 1,370.2 MW of EIA-reported nameplate capacity in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, registered as EIA Plant ID 602. Its continued operation has a significant PJM-BGE grid-reliability role: the units were retained beyond their scheduled June 1, 2025 retirement under an RMR agreement through May 31, 2029. Reported commercial-operation dates are 1984 (Unit 1); 1991 (Unit 2).

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Overview

Key fields

Reported capacity: 1,370.2 MW
EIA-reported nameplate capacity; other nameplate and seasonal ratings may differ.
Technology: Conventional Steam Coal
Primary generation technology.
Registry anchor: Plant 602
Anne Arundel County · PJM
Operating status: Operating
Grid connection: Brandon Shores 230 kV substation
230 kV

Infrastructure record

Operator: Brandon Shores LLC

Profile

Operating status: Brandon Shores is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for May 31, 2029.
Grid role: Reliability-must-run dispatchable generation supporting BGE-area and Baltimore grid and transmission reliability until transmission upgrades are complete.
Grid connection: Brandon Shores 230 kV substation · 230 kV.
Context: Its continued operation has a significant PJM-BGE grid-reliability role: the units were retained beyond their scheduled June 1, 2025 retirement under an RMR agreement through May 31, 2029.
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Structured profile

Reported capacity: 1,370.2 MW
Conventional Steam Coal
Operating status: operating
Brandon Shores is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for May 31, 2029.
Retirement: May 31, 2029
Brandon Shores is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for May 31, 2029.
Interconnection: Brandon Shores 230 kV substation
230 kV

Units and generators

Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.

Generator	Capacity	Technology	Operation	Status
1	685.1 MW 635 MW summer	Conventional Steam Coal Bituminous Coal · ST	May 1984 Retirement: Jun 2029	Operating
2	685.1 MW 638 MW summer	Conventional Steam Coal Bituminous Coal · ST	May 1991 Retirement: Jun 2029	Operating

Performance

Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.

Peer context

Technology capacity: 1,370.2 MW
National rank: #50
MD rank: #1

Monthly generation

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Latest 12 months

2.81 TWh

Reported net generation

Latest report

Apr 2026

EIA-923 monthly filing

2025 capacity factor

19.4%

Grid and market context

Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.

Nearby substations

HIFLD infrastructure inventory

BRANDON SHORES

IN SERVICE · 230 kV

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WAGNER

Commercial, land, and environmental record

Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.

Transactions and agreements

Plant Acquisition

2012

Exelon sold Brandon Shores Generating Station to Raven Power Holdings LLC (Riverstone Holdings subsidiary) for $178.35 million in 2012. This was the plant-specific allocation from the $400 million portfolio sale of three Maryland stations (Brandon Shores, H. A. Wagner, C. P. Crane). Arm's-length transaction completed as divestiture condition for Exelon–Constellation Energy merger regulatory approval.

$178.4MExelon Corporation · Raven Power Holdings LLC

Price tag of $720 million to keep Brandon Shores and Wagner power plants open imposes unreasonable costs on customers, OPC tells federal regulators

Land and environmental record

Air Permit

Permit No. Maryland Part 70 Operating Permit No. 24-003-0468

Raven Power Fort Smallwood LLC Brandon Shores and Wagner Generating Stations facility at 1005 Brandon Shores Road, Baltimore, Maryland operates under Part 70 permit No. 24-003-0468.

[PDF] 24-003-0468-Raven Fort Smallwood Factsheet - Regulations.gov

Air Registration Material Handling

MDE Registration No. 6-1143

Brandon Shores material-handling system identified under MDE Registration No. 6-1143 in Part 70 permit fact sheet.

[PDF] 24-003-0468-Raven Fort Smallwood Factsheet - Regulations.gov

Emissions Control Systems

ESP, SCR, hydrated lime or equivalent, PAC injection, baghouse, and wet FGD

Brandon Shores Units 1 and 2 route emissions through electrostatic precipitators, selective catalytic reduction systems, hydrated-lime or equivalent injection, powdered activated carbon injection, baghouses, and flue-gas desulfurization before discharge through single stack.

[PDF] 24-003-0468-Raven Fort Smallwood Factsheet - Regulations.gov

Site Area Complex Level

2022

456 acres

Fort Smallwood Complex (Brandon Shores and H. A. Wagner combined) located on 456-acre site per Maryland Part 70 permit fact sheet. Scoped as complex-level figure; not reconciled with earlier 483-acre co-located-site measurement.

[PDF] 24-003-0468-Raven Fort Smallwood Factsheet - Regulations.gov

Waste Management Coal Combustion Byproducts

Fort Armistead Road–Lot 15 Industrial Landfill (owned/managed by Raven Power, Talen subsidiary)

When not beneficially reused, Brandon Shores sends coal-combustion-byproduct materials to Fort Armistead Road–Lot 15 Industrial Landfill owned and managed by Raven Power, a wholly owned subsidiary of Talen Energy.

Brandon Shores Power Plant - Talen Energy

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Project timeline

May 1984
May 1984
Generator enters operationEIA-860
EIA-860 lists generator 1 with this operating date.
May 1991
May 1991
Generator enters operation

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