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Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 2011
Net generation, 2025: 3,954,147 MWh
Grid: 100 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
Location: Rowan County, North Carolina
Operated by: Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC

Net generation, 2025: 3,954,147MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 27,882,817MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 64.7%
Heat rate, 2025: 7,052Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (8 of 12 months)	2,999,317	21,280,176	—	7,095
2025	3,954,147	27,882,817	64.7%	7,052
2024	4,208,617	30,047,804	68.7%	7,140
2023	3,819,419	27,133,725	62.5%	7,104
2022	4,866,838	34,761,152	79.6%	7,142
2021	4,535,375	31,984,248	74.2%	7,052
2020	3,866,827	27,416,099	63.1%	7,090
2019	4,392,284	31,289,774	71.8%	7,124
2018	5,173,061	36,807,673	84.6%	7,115
2017	5,118,736	36,092,572	83.7%	7,051
2016	5,021,160	35,385,339	81.9%	7,047
2015	4,975,897	35,253,415	81.4%	7,085
2014	3,701,242	26,279,058	60.5%	7,100
2013	4,332,307	31,258,281	70.9%	7,215
2012	4,386,975	31,960,422	71.6%	7,285
2011 (11 of 12 months)	821,416	8,222,687	—	10,010
2010	1,136,555	12,663,253	18.6%	11,142
2009	419,918	4,823,558	6.9%	11,487
2008	1,303,508	13,969,895	21.3%	10,717
2007	1,721,577	19,070,139	28.2%	11,077
2006	1,580,041	17,914,445	25.8%	11,338
2005	1,647,566	18,112,308	27.0%	10,993
2004	1,571,114	16,769,614	25.6%	10,674
2003 (11 of 12 months)	1,920,236	20,265,302	—	10,554
2002	1,249,807	13,352,091	20.4%	10,683
2001	1,522,193	16,572,974	24.9%	10,888

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.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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