How many natural gas power plants are in Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania has 74 operating utility-scale natural gas power plants with 30 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.

What is the largest natural gas power plant in Pennsylvania?

TalenEnergy Montour in Montour County, Pennsylvania is the largest, at 1,758 MW. It came online in 1973.

How many natural gas power plants were built in Pennsylvania in 2025?

1 natural gas power plant came online in Pennsylvania in 2025, with 2 MW of capacity.

Who is developing natural gas power plants in Pennsylvania?

Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.

Natural gas power plants in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has 74 operating natural gas power plants with 30 GW of capacity. 1 came online in 2025.

Operating74

See planned natural gas power plants in Pennsylvania

Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Under 250 MW250–999 MW1 GW and up

Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Pennsylvania had 52 natural gas power plants online in 2016 and 74 in 2026

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Natural gas power plants online at the end of each year. Source: EIA-860M, compiled by Cleanview.

The 10 largest natural gas power plants in Pennsylvania

Operating, by capacity

#	Natural gas power plant	County	Year online	Capacity
1	TalenEnergy Montour	Montour County	1973	1,758 MW
2	TalenEnergy Martins Creek	Northampton County	1977	1,701 MW
3	Brunner Island	York County	1969	1,616 MW
4	Lackawanna Energy Center	Lackawanna County	2018	1,499 MW
5	York Energy Center	York County	2019	1,449 MW
6	Fairless Energy Center	Bucks County	2004	1,338 MW
7	CPV Fairview Energy Center	Cambria County	2019	1,197 MW
8	Hummel Station LLC	Snyder County	2018	1,194 MW
9	Bethlehem Power Plant	Northampton County	2003	1,153 MW
10	Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station	Westmoreland County	2018	1,134 MW

Natural gas power plants that came online most recently in Pennsylvania

Newest first

#	Natural gas power plant	County	Year online	Capacity
1	UE-2202PA, LLC	Northampton County	2025	2 MW
2	West Point (PA)	Montgomery County	2024	86 MW
3	West Campus Steam Plant	Centre County	2021	14 MW
4	Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC	Beaver County	2021	310 MW
5	Hill Top Energy Center, LLC	Greene County	2021	665 MW
6	Pittsburgh Airport Gas Plant	Allegheny County	2021	22 MW
7	TJX Engine	Philadelphia County	2021	3 MW
8	Towanda Facility	Bradford County	2021	5 MW
9	Chester Operations	Delaware County	2020	69 MW
10	Hickory Run Energy Station	Lawrence County	2020	1,034 MW

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How Cleanview tracks natural gas power plants

Operating natural gas power plants come from the EIA's monthly survey of power plants. Planned projects come from the grid operators' interconnection queues. We research who is developing each one, since a queue lists a project company, not its owner.

Questions about natural gas power plants in Pennsylvania

How many natural gas power plants are in Pennsylvania?: Pennsylvania has 74 operating utility-scale natural gas power plants with 30 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.
What is the largest natural gas power plant in Pennsylvania?: TalenEnergy Montour in Montour County, Pennsylvania is the largest, at 1,758 MW. It came online in 1973.
How many natural gas power plants were built in Pennsylvania in 2025?: 1 natural gas power plant came online in Pennsylvania in 2025, with 2 MW of capacity.
Who is developing natural gas power plants in Pennsylvania?: Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.