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Riverbend — Power plant · Coal · Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC
  • Combustion
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Riverbend

Power plant · Coal

Key facts

Power plant · Coalran 3% of 2012 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1952
Net generation, 2012
155,786 MWh
Grid
230 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
Location
Gaston County, North Carolina
Net generation, 2012
155,786MWh
Fuel burned, 2012
1,992,749MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2012
2.9%
Heat rate, 2012
12,792Btu/kWh
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2013 (6 of 12 months)123,7591,336,731—10,801
2012155,7861,992,7492.9%12,792
2011862,1599,739,55316.4%11,297
20101,279,68314,014,30424.3%10,951
2009487,7295,396,2459.3%11,064
20081,952,00421,052,97237.0%10,785
20072,241,33223,806,36842.6%10,622
20061,880,80719,592,07235.7%10,417
20051,835,73319,690,66034.9%10,726
20041,578,80916,807,48129.9%10,646
2003 (11 of 12 months)2,289,68823,709,265—10,355
20021,660,43817,413,75731.5%10,487
20012,111,34722,054,56940.1%10,446
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 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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