Brandon Shores Generating Station

The Brandon Shores Generating Station is an electric generating station located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, near Glen Burnie, and is operated by Talen Energy. Brandon Shores consists of a pair of Babcock & Wilcox coal-fired boilers which each feed a General Electric steam turbine. The station has a combined nominal generating capacity of 1370 MWe. Unit 1 went into operation in May 1984 and Unit 2 in May 1991. The station shares a 483-acre (195 ha) site adjacent to the Patapsco River with the Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station. The Brandon Shores plant dominates the site with its 700-foot (210 m) exhaust and 400-foot (120 m) flue-gas desulfurization system stacks. In April 2023, Talen Energy notified its grid operator, PJM, that it intended to close the station on June 1, 2025. While the plant was scheduled to retire on June 1, 2025, Units 1 and 2 will continue to operate beyond this date until May 31, 2029 under a “reliability-must-run” (RMR) agreement to provide power necessary to maintain grid and transmission reliability in and around the City of Baltimore until transmission upgrades to provide reliable power to the area from other sources are complete.

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