Indian River Generating Station
BrownfieldDagsboro, Sussex, Delaware · Indian River Operations Inc
Indian River Generating Station is a coal plant in Dagsboro, Sussex, Delaware, retired 2014-01-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 340 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Sussex County
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Indian River Generating Station — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaford Delaware Plant | natural gas plant | 30 | 21.4 mi | — |
| Berlin | oil plant | 18 | 17.8 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Indian River Generating Station, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN128222 | Substation-Adjacent | DE | Sussex County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 61.7 |
| UNKNOWN128197 | Substation-Adjacent | DE | Sussex County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 59.8 |
| UNKNOWN128236 | Substation-Adjacent | DE | Sussex County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 59.0 |
| EC Near Seaford Delaware Plant | Greenfield | DE | Sussex | — | — | 1.5 yrs | 57.9 |
| EC Near Indian River Generating Station | Greenfield | DE | Sussex | — | — | 1.5 yrs | 57.7 |
| EC Near Seaford Delaware Plant | Greenfield | DE | Sussex | — | — | 1.5 yrs | 57.6 |
| OZ Wicomico | Greenfield | MD | Wicomico | — | — | 3.5 yrs | 57.5 |
| EC Near Seaford Delaware Plant | Greenfield | DE | Sussex | — | — | 1.5 yrs | 57.2 |
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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This page shows a public slice of the GridCensus dataset for Indian River Generating Station, Dagsboro, Sussex, Delaware. Pro and Enterprise plans unlock the full 147,272-site catalog, raw sub-scores, parcel ownership, interconnection-queue detail, saved searches, and programmatic API access.