Duke Energy Progress East (CPLE)
Duke Energy Progress East (CPLE) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 462 power plants with 16.2 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 5.4 GW. Its peak load is 15,519 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 15,519 MW
Capacity by fuel
462 power plants with 16.2 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 5.4 GW from 12 plants (34%)
- Nuclear: 3.6 GW from 3 plants (22%)
- Coal: 3.1 GW from 2 plants (19%)
- Solar: 3 GW from 396 plants (18%)
- Biomass: 341 MW from 10 plants (2%)
- Oil: 254 MW from 7 plants (2%)
- Battery storage: 228 MW from 26 plants (1%)
- Hydro: 205 MW from 5 plants (1%)
- Other: 54 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Roxboro: Coal, 2.4 GW, North Carolina
- Sherwood H Smith Jr Energy Complex: Natural gas, 1.9 GW, North Carolina
- Brunswick Nuclear: Nuclear, 1.9 GW, North Carolina
- Harris (NC): Nuclear, 964 MW, North Carolina
- Wayne County Energy Complex: Natural gas, 822 MW, North Carolina
- Asheville: Natural gas, 814 MW, North Carolina
- H B Robinson: Nuclear, 759 MW, South Carolina
- Mayo: Coal, 704 MW, North Carolina
- L V Sutton Combined Cycle: Natural gas, 698 MW, North Carolina
- Anson County Generation Facility: Natural gas, 339 MW, North Carolina
Planned and under construction
26 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1.5 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 1.4 GW
- Battery storage: 86 MW
States and provinces
- North Carolina: 416 plants
- South Carolina: 46 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain