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Thorpe
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 32% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1941
- Net generation, 2025
- 59,813 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Jackson County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Duke Energy Carolinas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 59,813
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 204,083
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 31.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59,813 | 204,083 | 31.6% | — |
| 2024 | 56,717 | 194,030 | 29.9% | — |
| 2023 | 55,365 | 188,906 | 29.3% | — |
| 2022 | 73,093 | 249,393 | 38.6% | — |
| 2021 | 87,227 | 771,435 | 46.1% | — |
| 2020 | 118,015 | 1,034,637 | 62.2% | — |
| 2019 | 110,067 | 980,147 | 58.2% | — |
| 2018 | 96,019 | 874,155 | 50.7% | — |
| 2017 | 65,193 | 600,622 | 34.4% | — |
| 2016 | 49,869 | 460,392 | 26.3% | — |
| 2015 | 57,912 | 539,681 | 30.6% | — |
| 2014 | 70,135 | 666,983 | 37.1% | — |
| 2013 | 77,707 | 741,402 | 41.1% | — |
| 2012 | 69,509 | 661,447 | 36.6% | — |
| 2011 | 70,427 | 684,268 | 37.2% | — |
| 2010 | 70,619 | 688,959 | 37.3% | — |
| 2009 | 93,137 | 909,016 | 49.2% | — |
| 2008 | 60,893 | 600,039 | 32.1% | — |
| 2007 | 43,531 | 430,260 | 23.0% | — |
| 2006 | 66,858 | 663,166 | 35.3% | — |
| 2005 | 105,842 | 1,058,314 | 55.9% | — |
| 2004 | 80,135 | 803,113 | 42.2% | — |
| 2003 | 82,636 | 846,275 | 43.7% | — |
| 2002 | 76,517 | 778,407 | 40.4% | — |
| 2001 | 50,874 | 525,681 | 26.9% | — |
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.