Pittsfield Generating Facility

Pittsfield Generating Facility is a natural gas or oil-fired station in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, built and operated by Altresco Pittsfield through 1993 when sold to J Makowski on behalf of PG&E.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Silver Lake and Berkshire Medical Center Berkshire Campus.

Silver Lake

Lake

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Silver Lake is a lake in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The lake has had environmental concerns and been subject to a clean-up effort by both the city of Pittsfield and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Berkshire Medical Center Berkshire Campus

Hospital

Berkshire Medical Center is a mid-sized non-profit community hospital located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The hospital is part of Berkshire Health Systems, a three-hospital healthcare system operating in Western Massachusetts. Berkshire Medical Center Berkshire Campus is situated 1½ miles west of Pittsfield Generating Facility.

Berkshire Museum

Museum

Photo: Berkshiremuseum, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Berkshire Museum is a museum of art, natural history, and ancient civilization that is located in Pittsfield in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Berkshire Museum is situated 2 miles west of Pittsfield Generating Facility.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pittsfield and Dalton.

Pittsfield

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Pittsfield is a small city in western Massachusetts. It is the largest city in Berkshire County and home to Berkshire Community College.

Dalton

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY 3.0.

Dalton is a town in the Berkshires, Massachusetts. Next to the city of Pittsfield, it is perhaps best known for Crane Currency, formerly Crane & Company, which produces the paper used in United States national currency.

Lanesborough

Photo: Matthew T. Bradley, CC BY 2.0.

Lanesborough is a town of 3,000 people in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Mount Greylock, portions of which are in the town, is probably the main attraction. There are plenty of places to sleep and eat, but no nightlife to speak of.

Pittsfield Generating Facility

Type: Power station
Also known as: “Pittsfield Generating LP”
Categories: oil-fired power station, natural gas-fired power station, and industry
Location: City of Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.45646° or 42° 27′ 23″ north

Longitude

-73.2177° or 73° 13′ 4″ west

Inception

July 1990

Operator

Pittsfield Generating Company, LP

Open location code

87J8FQ4J+HW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 707254998

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

Wikidata ID

Q7199476

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