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The Pratt Street Power Plant — also known as the Pier Four Power Plant, The Power Plant, and Pratt Street Station — is a historic former power plant located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It has undergone significant repurposing development since retirement and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The "Power Plant" is a mixed-use project re-developed in the late 1990s in a former coal-burning power generating station, originally built in 1900-05 for the old United Railways and Electric Company which operated the recently unified public transportation system of streetcars, trolleys, and some cable cars (in the early years), at the beginning of the 20th century up to its re-organization ...
The property consists of two pavilions, each two stories in height; one along Pratt Street, the other on Light Street. The pavilions house a range of stores and restaurants, some of which once sold merchandise specific to Baltimore or the state of Maryland, such as blue crab food products, Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Ravens merchandise, Edgar Allan Poe products, and University of Maryland ...
The Baltimore Harbor Light, officially Baltimore Light and historically Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse is a privately owned caisson lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] First lit in 1908, it sits at the mouth of the Magothy River , marking the channel which leads northwest to the opening of the Patapsco River , which ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Maryland, sorted by type and name. In 2022, Maryland had a total summer capacity of 11,908 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 37,139 GWh. [ 2 ]
Before the plant was closed, Exelon operated it as a peaking power plant with a capacity factor of up to 10%. As the mid-Maryland region is a summer peaking load, the majority of the plant's operating time was during hot summer days. The Gould Street Generating Station was dispatched by the PJM Interconnection regional transmission organization.
The United Railways and Electric Company was a street railway company in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area of the U.S. state of Maryland from 1899 to 1935. [1] [2]In 1900, the company built the Power Plant in Baltimore's Inner Harbor to provide electrical power to the system.
Pratt Street Power Plant: Pier 4, 601 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland, (Baldwin & Pennington), originally United Railways and Electric Company (streetcar system) - now Power Plant Live!, constructed 1899-1909 (built in 3 stages - interrupted by Great Baltimore Fire, February 7–8, 1904), NRHP-listed.