Power plant · Virginia, United States

Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a power plant in Virginia, United States, with 447 MW of capacity, owned by Virginia Electric & Power Co.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Virginia	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1990	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Virginia Electric & Power Co	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Virginia Electric & Power Co	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	447 MW	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	37.3822, -77.3833	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Chesterfield is the 20th-largest of 20 power plants in Virginia and the 798th-largest of 800 in the United States by capacity; its 447 MW is <0.1% of the 839,036 MW we hold for the United States. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Virginia	20th of 20	21,365 MW	2.1%
United States	798th of 800	839,036 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	917th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 30 data centers (4 operating, 644 MW), 2 AI supercomputers and 2 mines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Virginia Information Technologies Agency	Data center	—	—	5.1 km
CoreWeave Chester VA	Data center	82 MW	Operating	5.4 km
Digital Fortress: Richmond	Data center	—	—	5.5 km
Meta Research SuperCluster (RSC-1) Phase 1	AI supercomputer	1,917 H100e	Operating	17 km
Meta Research SuperCluster (RSC-1) Phase 2	AI supercomputer	5,045 H100e	Operating	17 km
Jack Plant	Mine	—	Operating	24 km
King William	Mine	—	Operating	44 km

Owner, operator and place

Other power plants in Virginia

Bath County2,862 MW
North Anna1,960 MW
Greensville County Power Station1,773 MW
Surry1,695 MW
Brunswick County Power Station1,472 MW
Warren County1,472 MW
Doswell Energy Center1,313 MW
Tenaska Virginia Generating Station1,011 MW

All 35 power plants in Virginia, United States

Data on this page

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Epoch AI. Epoch AI data centers, CC BY 4.0.
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Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
MSHA Mines Data Set. MSHA Mines Data Set, Public domain.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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