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Bridgewater
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 12% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1919
- Net generation, 2025
- 27,983 MWh
- Grid
- 100 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Burke County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Duke Energy Carolinas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 27,983
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 95,605
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 11.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27,983 | 95,605 | 11.5% | — |
| 2024 | 39,899 | 136,307 | 16.4% | — |
| 2023 | 40,302 | 137,511 | 16.6% | — |
| 2022 | 49,084 | 167,476 | 20.2% | — |
| 2021 | 56,322 | 498,112 | 23.2% | — |
| 2020 | 101,362 | 888,640 | 41.7% | — |
| 2019 | 82,047 | 730,629 | 33.8% | — |
| 2018 | 117,680 | 1,071,359 | 48.5% | — |
| 2017 | 51,905 | 478,201 | 21.4% | — |
| 2016 | 48,345 | 446,320 | 19.9% | — |
| 2015 | 68,716 | 640,365 | 28.3% | — |
| 2014 | 56,492 | 537,237 | 23.3% | — |
| 2013 | 98,250 | 937,402 | 40.5% | — |
| 2012 | 41,458 | 394,514 | 17.0% | — |
| 2011 | 33,831 | 328,701 | 13.9% | — |
| 2010 | 57,055 | 556,630 | 23.5% | — |
| 2009 | 59,177 | 577,568 | 24.4% | — |
| 2008 | 26,246 | 258,629 | 10.8% | — |
| 2007 | 36,029 | 356,110 | 14.8% | — |
| 2006 | 45,530 | 451,611 | 18.8% | — |
| 2005 | 74,464 | 744,566 | 30.7% | — |
| 2004 | 62,669 | 628,069 | 25.8% | — |
| 2003 | 78,991 | 808,947 | 32.6% | — |
| 2002 | 27,824 | 283,054 | 11.5% | — |
| 2001 | 23,963 | 247,610 | 9.9% | — |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.