West Deptford Energy Station
LS Power GroupGloucester County
West Deptford Energy Station is a natural gas-fired power facility with 754.6 MW of EIA-reported nameplate capacity in Gloucester County, New Jersey, registered as EIA Plant ID 56963. Marubeni Corporation is the current owner; West Deptford Energy LLC is the registered plant entity or operator. The station's integrated black-start system was described as a practically unprecedented power-sector milestone because it can restart other connected power plants; the project was also named an Engineering News-Record Best Project of 2015.
Mapped infrastructure geometry associated with this asset.
Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
West Deptford Energy Station is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for 2026.
PJM
EIA plant 56963 · Inventory for Sep 2026.
| Generator | Technology | Status | Power (MW) | Energy (MWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E101 | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 225.3 | Unknown |
| E102 | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 225.3 | Unknown |
| STG1 | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 304 | Unknown |
Similar plants ranked by technology, capacity, and distance.
Current generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E101 | 225.3 MW 213 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle CT | Oct 2014 | Operating |
| E102 | 225.3 MW 213.6 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle CT | Oct 2014 | Operating |
| STG1 | 304 MW 309.2 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle CA | Oct 2014 | Operating |
Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.
Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.
Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.
Parties, market resources, and identifiers tied to this asset, with owner, operator, developer, EPC, compliance provider, and interconnecting entity roles kept separate.
Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.
West Deptford Energy submitted its PJM generator interconnection request and received queue position Q90; PJM determined that no new network upgrades beyond direct interconnection facilities were required for the planned output.
PJM · Gloucester County
Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
The project received West Deptford Township preliminary and final site-plan approvals in September 2008, with engineering and environmental work supporting land-development and permit approvals.
A New Jersey Board of Public Utilities filing described a 650-MW nominal natural-gas combined-cycle facility with real-estate rights and major permits secured, targeting a 2014 in-service date.
West Deptford Energy Holdings announced completion of financing for construction of the facility; construction was scheduled to begin in early 2012, with commercial operations targeted for 2014.
The principal plant reached construction completion in mid-2014 at approximately 738 MW, and the integrated black-start system was completed as a separate upgrade to the gas-fired combined-cycle facility.
EIA-860 lists generator E101, generator E102, generator STG1 with this operating date.
The black-start system was named an Engineering News-Record Best Project of 2015 and was designed to allow the station to help start other connected power plants during a grid outage.
Answered from the published record above. Questions whose inputs this profile does not carry are omitted rather than estimated.
West Deptford Energy Station reports 754.6 MW natural gas of operating nameplate capacity. These technology ratings do not establish a common export limit. Source: EIA Sep 2026.
West Deptford Energy Station is a Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle facility in Gloucester County, NJ, participating in the PJM market.
West Deptford Energy Station is in Gloucester County, NJ, inside the PJM balancing area.
West Deptford Energy Station is operated by West Deptford Energy LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
West Deptford Energy Station reported 1,209 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-07. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
By capacity, West Deptford Energy Station ranks #156 of 540 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #6 of 14 in NJ.
Plants within 25 km, nearest first, regardless of technology. Proximity is straight-line distance between mapped plant coordinates; it does not by itself establish a shared point of interconnection.