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[[Image:Harrynicebridge603.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Morgantown Generating Station and [[Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge]] ]]The '''Morgantown Generating Station''' is a 1,492 MW [[Electricity generation|electric generating]] plant owned by [[Mirant|Mirant Services LLC]] which is located at {{coord|38|21|33|N|76|58|36|W|display=inline,title}}, near the unincorporated town of [[Morgantown, Maryland]], on the [[Potomac River]].

The facility consists of two [[Base load power plant|base loaded]] 624 MW coal-fired steam generating units, four 65 MW oil-fired [[Peaking power plant|peaking]] combustion units, and two 18 MW [[black start]] peaking turbines. The two coal-fired units are base-loaded [[Boiler#Supercritical_steam_generators|supercritical steam unit]]s which went into operation in 1970 and 1971.<ref>{{cite web |title=Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006 |work= |publisher=[[Energy Information Administration]], U.S. Department of Energy |year=2006|url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/capacity/capacity.html |format=Excel |doi= |accessdate=2008-07-14}}</ref> The four peaking units are [[General Electric]] Frame 7 units which went into operation in 1973, while the two black start peaking units are General Electric Frame 5 units which went into operation in 1970 and 1971.<ref>''Environmental Review of the Air Pollution Control Project at the Morgantown Generating Station'' by the [[Maryland Department of Natural Resources]] (Apr. 6, 2007), [[Maryland Public Service Commission]] Case No. 9085 docket</ref>

Coal is delivered to the Morgantown generating station by [[CSX Transportation]] train using the [[Popes Creek Subdivision|Pope's Creek Subdivision]] rail line. Construction of a coal barge unloading pier on the Potomac River began in 2007.

All of the generating plants at the Morgantown Generating Station were built by the [[Potomac Electric Power Company]], which sold them to the [[Southern Company]] in December 2000 as a result of the [[Maryland Electric Deregulation|restructuring of the electricity generating industry in Maryland]]. The station was included in the Mirant [[spin-off]] in April 2001.

The Morgantown Generating Station is dispatched by the [[PJM Interconnection]] [[Regional Transmission Organization|regional transmission organization]].