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Falls Hydro
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 34% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1919
- Net generation, 2025
- 93,557 MWh
- Grid
- 100 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (YAD)
- Location
- Stanly County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 93,557
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 319,217
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 34.0
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93,557 | 319,217 | 34.0% | — |
| 2024 | 126,525 | 431,704 | 45.9% | — |
| 2023 | 124,087 | 423,384 | 45.1% | — |
| 2022 | 117,041 | 399,343 | 42.5% | — |
| 2021 | 137,684 | 1,217,677 | 50.1% | — |
| 2020 | 180,756 | 1,584,688 | 65.5% | — |
| 2019 | 156,748 | 1,395,842 | 57.0% | — |
| 2018 | 159,405 | 1,451,223 | 58.0% | — |
| 2017 | 90,517 | 833,933 | 32.9% | — |
| 2016 | 106,798 | 985,959 | 38.7% | — |
| 2015 | 97,196 | 905,771 | 35.3% | — |
| 2014 | 115,724 | 1,100,536 | 42.1% | — |
| 2013 | 155,480 | 1,483,436 | 56.5% | — |
| 2012 | 88,470 | 841,881 | 32.1% | — |
| 2011 | 93,962 | 912,936 | 34.2% | — |
| 2010 | 117,034 | 1,141,783 | 42.5% | — |
| 2009 | 103,470 | 1,009,870 | 37.6% | — |
| 2008 | 67,673 | 666,852 | 24.5% | — |
| 2007 | 76,468 | 755,808 | 27.8% | — |
| 2006 | 92,244 | 914,969 | 33.5% | — |
| 2005 | 112,870 | 1,128,587 | 41.0% | — |
| 2004 | 119,948 | 1,202,119 | 43.5% | — |
| 2003 | 180,272 | 1,846,166 | 65.5% | — |
| 2002 | 66,971 | 681,296 | 24.3% | — |
| 2001 | 50,831 | 525,237 | 18.5% | — |
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)