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Pelzer Upper — Power plant · Hydro · Central Rivers Power US, LLC
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  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

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
3,843MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
13,113MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
21.9%
Heat rate, 2025
Not stated
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
20253,84313,11321.9%—
20244,67915,96326.6%—
20234,60615,71626.3%—
20224,49815,34825.7%—
20214,01335,49022.9%—
20205,81550,98033.1%—
20195,72450,97332.7%—
201810,22993,12558.4%—
20175,46650,35731.2%—
20165,99555,34534.1%—
20158,76281,65250.0%—
201411,335107,79664.7%—
201314,045134,00480.2%—
20126,98466,45839.8%—
20116,06058,87834.6%—
20106,52863,68737.3%—
20095,76456,25632.9%—
20084390.0%—
2007201980.1%—
20065,00049,59628.5%—
20057,59875,97243.4%—
20046,97569,89939.7%—
20038,38885,90447.9%—
20024,28543,59124.5%—
20013,08331,85717.6%—
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

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Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

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