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Tuckasegee
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 17% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1950
- Net generation, 2025
- 4,521 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
- 4,521
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 15,425
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 17.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4,521 | 15,425 | 17.2% | — |
| 2024 | 4,170 | 14,241 | 15.8% | — |
| 2023 | 4,814 | 16,425 | 18.3% | — |
| 2022 | 5,639 | 19,243 | 21.5% | — |
| 2021 | 8,100 | 71,637 | 30.8% | — |
| 2020 | 5,018 | 43,993 | 19.0% | — |
| 2019 | 8,306 | 73,965 | 31.6% | — |
| 2018 | 7,077 | 64,430 | 26.9% | — |
| 2017 | 4,188 | 38,586 | 15.9% | — |
| 2016 | 2,442 | 22,544 | 9.3% | — |
| 2015 | 4,620 | 43,054 | 17.6% | — |
| 2014 | 5,675 | 53,969 | 21.6% | — |
| 2013 | 7,010 | 66,884 | 26.7% | — |
| 2012 | 5,988 | 56,981 | 22.7% | — |
| 2011 | 6,315 | 61,358 | 24.0% | — |
| 2010 | 6,172 | 60,213 | 23.5% | — |
| 2009 | 8,060 | 78,667 | 30.7% | — |
| 2008 | 5,408 | 53,290 | 20.5% | — |
| 2007 | 3,729 | 36,858 | 14.2% | — |
| 2006 | 5,503 | 54,585 | 20.9% | — |
| 2005 | 10,206 | 102,050 | 38.8% | — |
| 2004 | 7,411 | 74,273 | 28.1% | — |
| 2003 | 8,600 | 88,073 | 32.7% | — |
| 2002 | 7,246 | 73,714 | 27.6% | — |
| 2001 | 4,463 | 46,116 | 17.0% | — |
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.