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Pelzer Lower
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 13% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1989
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,843 MWh
- Grid
- 3 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Anderson County, South Carolina
- Operated by
- Central Rivers Power US, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,843
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 13,113
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 13.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,843 | 13,113 | 13.3% | — |
| 2024 | 4,679 | 15,963 | 16.1% | — |
| 2023 | 4,606 | 15,716 | 15.9% | — |
| 2022 | 6,102 | 20,820 | 21.1% | — |
| 2021 | 6,690 | 59,166 | 23.1% | — |
| 2020 | 8,179 | 71,707 | 28.2% | — |
| 2019 | 10,323 | 91,927 | 35.7% | — |
| 2018 | 10,229 | 93,125 | 35.4% | — |
| 2017 | 5,466 | 50,357 | 18.9% | — |
| 2016 | 5,995 | 55,345 | 20.7% | — |
| 2015 | 8,762 | 81,652 | 30.3% | — |
| 2014 | 11,335 | 107,796 | 39.2% | — |
| 2013 | 14,045 | 134,004 | 48.6% | — |
| 2012 | 6,984 | 66,458 | 24.1% | — |
| 2011 | 6,060 | 58,878 | 21.0% | — |
| 2010 | 10,652 | 103,920 | 36.9% | — |
| 2009 | 9,405 | 91,794 | 32.5% | — |
| 2008 | 3,598 | 35,454 | 12.4% | — |
| 2007 | 5,801 | 57,339 | 20.1% | — |
| 2006 | 5,728 | 56,817 | 19.8% | — |
| 2005 | 11,397 | 113,959 | 39.4% | — |
| 2004 | 10,336 | 103,583 | 35.7% | — |
| 2003 | 14,234 | 145,773 | 49.2% | — |
| 2002 | 6,467 | 65,789 | 22.4% | — |
| 2001 | 4,697 | 48,534 | 16.2% | — |
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.