Duke Energy Carolinas (DUK)
Duke Energy Carolinas (DUK) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 443 power plants with 28.4 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 14.7 GW. Its peak load is 21,620 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 21,620 MW
Capacity by fuel
443 power plants with 28.4 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 14.7 GW from 20 plants (52%)
- Nuclear: 7.2 GW from 3 plants (25%)
- Solar: 2.6 GW from 311 plants (9%)
- Pumped storage: 2.4 GW from 2 plants (9%)
- Hydro: 1.2 GW from 43 plants (4%)
- Oil: 148 MW from 45 plants (1%)
- Biomass: 61 MW from 16 plants (under 1%)
- Battery storage: 54 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
- Coal: 32 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Oconee: Nuclear, 2.6 GW, South Carolina
- McGuire: Nuclear, 2.3 GW, North Carolina
- Catawba: Nuclear, 2.3 GW, South Carolina
- Belews Creek: Natural gas, 2.2 GW, North Carolina
- Marshall (NC): Natural gas, 2.1 GW, North Carolina
- Bad Creek: Pumped storage, 1.6 GW, South Carolina
- Lincoln Combustion: Natural gas, 1.5 GW, North Carolina
- James E. Rogers Energy Complex: Natural gas, 1.4 GW, North Carolina
- Rowan: Natural gas, 974 MW, North Carolina
- Lee Combined Cycle Plant: Natural gas, 888 MW, North Carolina
Planned and under construction
21 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1.2 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 917 MW
- Battery storage: 236 MW
States and provinces
- North Carolina: 361 plants
- South Carolina: 82 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