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Cedar Cliff
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 21% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1952
- Net generation, 2025
- 11,554 MWh
- Grid
- 66 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Jackson County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Duke Energy Carolinas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 11,554
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 39,423
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 20.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,554 | 39,423 | 20.6% | — |
| 2024 | 11,694 | 39,952 | 20.8% | — |
| 2023 | 9,945 | 33,934 | 17.7% | — |
| 2022 | 16,590 | 56,605 | 29.6% | — |
| 2021 | 17,114 | 151,357 | 30.5% | — |
| 2020 | 14,360 | 125,896 | 25.5% | — |
| 2019 | 24,460 | 217,816 | 43.6% | — |
| 2018 | 27,610 | 251,362 | 49.2% | — |
| 2017 | 15,207 | 140,102 | 27.1% | — |
| 2016 | 15,833 | 146,171 | 28.2% | — |
| 2015 | 9,484 | 88,382 | 16.9% | — |
| 2014 | 17,842 | 169,679 | 31.8% | — |
| 2013 | 27,471 | 262,100 | 49.0% | — |
| 2012 | 17,699 | 168,424 | 31.5% | — |
| 2011 | 18,747 | 182,146 | 33.4% | — |
| 2010 | 19,719 | 192,380 | 35.2% | — |
| 2009 | 23,992 | 234,163 | 42.8% | — |
| 2008 | 14,975 | 147,564 | 26.6% | — |
| 2007 | 87,682 | 866,648 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15,396 | 152,714 | 27.5% | — |
| 2005 | 28,669 | 286,661 | 51.1% | — |
| 2004 | 25,013 | 250,680 | 44.5% | — |
| 2003 | 27,231 | 278,873 | 48.6% | — |
| 2002 | 16,827 | 171,181 | 30.0% | — |
| 2001 | 23,935 | 247,320 | 42.7% | — |
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.