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McGuire
Power plant · Nuclear
Key facts
Power plant · Nuclearran 91% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Net generation, 2025
- 19,505,489 MWh
- Grid
- 500 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Duke Energy Carolinas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 19,505,489
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 203,703,362
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 91.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,443
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 12,504,580 | 130,585,328 | — | 10,443 |
| 2025 | 19,505,489 | 203,703,362 | 91.2% | 10,443 |
| 2024 | 20,033,334 | 209,200,132 | 93.5% | 10,443 |
| 2023 | 18,068,372 | 188,912,925 | 84.5% | 10,455 |
| 2022 | 19,450,310 | 203,209,427 | 91.0% | 10,448 |
| 2021 | 19,662,114 | 205,058,411 | 92.0% | 10,429 |
| 2020 | 19,046,949 | 198,964,015 | 88.8% | 10,446 |
| 2019 | 19,588,255 | 204,533,550 | 91.6% | 10,442 |
| 2018 | 19,862,068 | 207,650,945 | 92.9% | 10,455 |
| 2017 | 18,795,536 | 196,584,910 | 87.9% | 10,459 |
| 2016 | 19,884,289 | 207,959,960 | 92.8% | 10,458 |
| 2015 | 19,536,002 | 204,317,232 | 91.4% | 10,458 |
| 2014 | 17,586,205 | 183,976,746 | 82.3% | 10,461 |
| 2013 | 18,897,606 | 197,456,152 | 88.4% | 10,449 |
| 2012 | 17,968,152 | 188,538,066 | 83.8% | 10,493 |
| 2011 | 17,849,647 | 186,835,776 | 83.5% | 10,467 |
| 2010 | 18,850,426 | 197,024,651 | 88.2% | 10,452 |
| 2009 | 19,014,743 | 199,426,625 | 88.9% | 10,488 |
| 2008 | 17,069,999 | 179,110,622 | 79.6% | 10,493 |
| 2007 | 17,619,492 | 184,740,375 | 82.4% | 10,485 |
| 2006 | 18,391,827 | 191,960,118 | 86.0% | 10,437 |
| 2005 | 17,514,163 | 182,760,291 | 81.9% | 10,435 |
| 2004 | 18,232,535 | 190,110,642 | 85.0% | 10,427 |
| 2003 | 18,940,276 | 197,376,616 | 88.6% | 10,421 |
| 2002 | 18,014,348 | 188,105,822 | 84.3% | 10,442 |
| 2001 | 18,562,982 | 193,834,658 | 86.8% | 10,442 |
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)