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Mission
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 45% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1924
- Net generation, 2025
- 7,044 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Clay County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Northbrook Carolina Hydro II, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 7,044
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 24,034
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 44.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7,044 | 24,034 | 44.7% | — |
| 2024 | 6,325 | 21,584 | 40.0% | — |
| 2023 | 7,755 | 26,460 | 49.2% | — |
| 2022 | 8,528 | 29,097 | 54.1% | — |
| 2021 | 10,478 | 92,666 | 66.5% | — |
| 2020 | 12,320 | 108,011 | 77.9% | — |
| 2019 | 5,802 | 51,668 | 36.8% | — |
| 2018 | 5,388 | 49,054 | 34.2% | — |
| 2017 | 3,640 | 33,535 | 23.1% | — |
| 2016 | 3,683 | 34,001 | 23.3% | — |
| 2015 | 5,171 | 48,189 | 32.8% | — |
| 2014 | 3,254 | 30,946 | 20.6% | — |
| 2013 | -36 | 0 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,557 | 14,816 | 9.8% | — |
| 2011 | 3,037 | 29,508 | 19.3% | — |
| 2010 | 3,147 | 30,701 | 20.0% | — |
| 2009 | 938 | 9,155 | 5.9% | — |
| 2008 | 2,249 | 22,160 | 14.2% | — |
| 2007 | 69,262 | 684,584 | — | — |
| 2006 | 3,780 | 37,494 | 24.0% | — |
| 2005 | 5,481 | 54,805 | 34.8% | — |
| 2004 | 4,841 | 48,517 | 30.6% | — |
| 2002 | 2,911 | 29,614 | 18.5% | — |
| 2001 | 4,904 | 50,673 | 31.1% | — |
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.