Duke Energy Progress West (CPLW)
Duke Energy Progress West (CPLW) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 8 power plants with 42 MW of capacity, solar the largest share at 26 MW.
Capacity by fuel
8 power plants with 42 MW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Solar: 26 MW from 6 plants (64%)
- Battery storage: 15 MW from 2 plants (36%)
Largest plants
- Asheville-Rock Hill Battery: Battery storage, 9 MW, North Carolina
- Hot Springs Energy Storage & Microgrid: Battery storage, 6 MW, North Carolina
- Arborgate Solar: Solar, 5 MW, North Carolina
- Badger: Solar, 5 MW, North Carolina
- Cookstown: Solar, 5 MW, North Carolina
- Woodfin Solar: Solar, 5 MW, North Carolina
- Starr: Solar, 5 MW, North Carolina
- Biltmore Solar Fields: Solar, 2 MW, North Carolina
Planned and under construction
5 generators planned, under construction or testing, 156 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 109 MW
- Battery storage: 48 MW
States and provinces
- North Carolina: 8 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