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Duke Energy Corporation is an American electric power and natural gas holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company ranked as the 141st largest company in the United States in 2024 – its highest-ever placement on the Fortune 500 list.
G. G. Allen Steam Station is a 1.140 GW coal-fired electricity generating facility, located in South Point Township, Gaston County, North Carolina, on man-made Lake Wylie (part of the Catawba River). Units 1 and 2 (165 MW each) began operating in 1957; units 3 , 4 , and 5 (275 MW each) in 1959, 1960, and 1961 respectively. [ 1 ]
The McGuire Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located about 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, on the state's largest lake, Lake Norman. It is a 32,500-acre (13,200 ha) lake created in 1963 by Duke Power for the Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station. The McGuire units use the lake's water for cooling.
Traffic passes the planned entrance to Duke Energy’s proposed natural gas twin turbine energy plant on Island Point Road in Sherrills Ford, Catawba County, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of North Carolina, sorted by type and name.In 2022, North Carolina had a total summer capacity of 35,391 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 134,257 GWh. [2]
At the same time, Duke intends to retire six North Carolina coal plants that total 8.45 GW of generation. ... The projection for Duke Energy Progress customers is $57 by 2033 and $81 by 2038.
The H.F. Lee Energy Complex, formerly the Goldsboro Plant, is an electrical power generating complex operated by Duke Energy. The power complex was originally owned by the Carolina Power & Light Company , which inaugurated a coal-fired power plant in 1951.
Specific actions include requiring Duke to procure 2,350 megawatts of new solar by 2028, requiring Duke to retire its six coal plants in North Carolina by 2035, and extending the licenses at its ...