History
The Dickerson plant began service in 1959. All of the generating plants at the Dickerson 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 restructuring of the electricity generating industry in Maryland. The station was included in the spin-off from the Southern Company of Mirant in April 2001, which has since operated and maintained the plant.
In 1991, the 900-foot (270 m)-long cooling water discharge channel from the power plant, which empties into the Potomac River, became the Dickerson Whitewater Course, a canoe and kayak training facility for the 1992 Olympic Games.
The Montgomery County Resource Recovery Facility began operations in 1995.
In December 2009, a $1.1 billion emissions upgrade was completed. A new stack and cooling system reduced the amount of waste heat going into the cooling water discharge channel.
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