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

Commissioned: 2012
Net generation, 2025: 3,928,215 MWh
Grid: 100 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
Location: Rockingham County, North Carolina
Operated by: Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC

Net generation, 2025: 3,928,215MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 28,244,130MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 64.2%
Heat rate, 2025: 7,190Btu/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)	3,080,480	22,197,226	—	7,206
2025	3,928,215	28,244,130	64.2%	7,190
2024	4,619,858	32,878,975	75.4%	7,117
2023	3,729,478	26,389,430	61.0%	7,076
2022	4,110,015	29,123,694	67.2%	7,086
2021	4,173,444	29,309,394	68.3%	7,023
2020	4,456,737	31,859,047	72.7%	7,148
2019	4,394,833	31,573,076	71.9%	7,184
2018	4,962,258	35,564,002	81.2%	7,167
2017	4,892,426	34,892,180	80.0%	7,132
2016	4,824,316	34,421,765	78.7%	7,135
2015	4,551,455	32,768,681	74.5%	7,200
2014	3,798,708	27,071,578	62.1%	7,126
2013	3,985,918	28,447,841	65.2%	7,137
2012 (11 of 12 months)	132,993	1,069,480	—	8,042
2011	252,251	3,151,335	4.1%	12,493
2010	594,720	6,872,751	9.7%	11,556
2009	171,380	2,052,721	2.8%	11,978
2008	1,030,130	11,545,219	16.8%	11,208
2007	1,060,122	11,995,860	17.3%	11,316
2006	1,049,228	11,679,160	17.2%	11,131
2005	649,164	7,591,146	10.6%	11,694
2004	720,663	8,107,430	11.8%	11,250
2003 (10 of 12 months)	903,569	9,936,829	—	10,997
2002	516,712	5,737,735	8.5%	11,104
2001	737,869	8,301,120	12.1%	11,250

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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