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Pelzer Upper
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 22% 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
- 21.9
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,843 | 13,113 | 21.9% | — |
| 2024 | 4,679 | 15,963 | 26.6% | — |
| 2023 | 4,606 | 15,716 | 26.3% | — |
| 2022 | 4,498 | 15,348 | 25.7% | — |
| 2021 | 4,013 | 35,490 | 22.9% | — |
| 2020 | 5,815 | 50,980 | 33.1% | — |
| 2019 | 5,724 | 50,973 | 32.7% | — |
| 2018 | 10,229 | 93,125 | 58.4% | — |
| 2017 | 5,466 | 50,357 | 31.2% | — |
| 2016 | 5,995 | 55,345 | 34.1% | — |
| 2015 | 8,762 | 81,652 | 50.0% | — |
| 2014 | 11,335 | 107,796 | 64.7% | — |
| 2013 | 14,045 | 134,004 | 80.2% | — |
| 2012 | 6,984 | 66,458 | 39.8% | — |
| 2011 | 6,060 | 58,878 | 34.6% | — |
| 2010 | 6,528 | 63,687 | 37.3% | — |
| 2009 | 5,764 | 56,256 | 32.9% | — |
| 2008 | 4 | 39 | 0.0% | — |
| 2007 | 20 | 198 | 0.1% | — |
| 2006 | 5,000 | 49,596 | 28.5% | — |
| 2005 | 7,598 | 75,972 | 43.4% | — |
| 2004 | 6,975 | 69,899 | 39.7% | — |
| 2003 | 8,388 | 85,904 | 47.9% | — |
| 2002 | 4,285 | 43,591 | 24.5% | — |
| 2001 | 3,083 | 31,857 | 17.6% | — |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)