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Cheoah
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 39% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1949
- Net generation, 2025
- 472,350 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Location
- Graham County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydropower LPSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 472,350
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,611,657
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 38.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 472,350 | 1,611,657 | 38.5% | — |
| 2024 | 484,893 | 1,654,455 | 39.4% | — |
| 2023 | 447,789 | 1,527,856 | 36.5% | — |
| 2022 | 524,362 | 1,789,122 | 42.8% | — |
| 2021 | 633,749 | 5,604,877 | 51.7% | — |
| 2020 | 766,347 | 6,718,563 | 62.3% | — |
| 2019 | 685,073 | 6,100,575 | 55.9% | — |
| 2018 | 575,896 | 5,242,957 | 47.0% | — |
| 2017 | 359,213 | 3,309,431 | 29.3% | — |
| 2016 | 404,003 | 3,729,755 | 32.9% | — |
| 2015 | 477,679 | 4,451,492 | 39.0% | — |
| 2014 | 467,953 | 4,450,233 | 38.2% | — |
| 2013 | 673,223 | 6,423,219 | 54.9% | — |
| 2012 | 258,750 | 2,462,266 | 21.0% | — |
| 2011 | 319,641 | 3,105,630 | 26.1% | — |
| 2010 | 424,395 | 4,140,397 | 34.6% | — |
| 2009 | 493,965 | 4,821,098 | 40.3% | — |
| 2008 | 307,369 | 3,028,815 | 25.0% | — |
| 2007 | 253,641 | 2,506,988 | 20.7% | — |
| 2006 | 378,315 | 3,752,506 | 30.9% | — |
| 2005 | 546,271 | 5,462,164 | 44.5% | — |
| 2004 | 517,150 | 5,182,877 | 42.0% | — |
| 2003 | 614,136 | 6,289,367 | 50.1% | — |
| 2002 | 426,210 | 4,335,834 | 34.8% | — |
| 2001 | 269,711 | 2,786,920 | 22.0% | — |
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.
Sources
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)