Power plants and the grid in South Carolina
South Carolina has 217 power plants with 25.1 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 6.7 GW. The map shows 25 data centers in South Carolina. Its interconnection queue holds 193 active requests for 19.4 GW.
Capacity by fuel
217 power plants with 25.1 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 6.7 GW from 20 plants (27%)
- Nuclear: 6.6 GW from 4 plants (26%)
- Coal: 4.8 GW from 4 plants (19%)
- Pumped storage: 3 GW from 3 plants (12%)
- Solar: 2.1 GW from 128 plants (8%)
- Hydro: 1.3 GW from 29 plants (5%)
- Biomass: 448 MW from 16 plants (2%)
- Oil: 216 MW from 13 plants (1%)
Largest plants
- Oconee: Nuclear, 2.6 GW
- Cross: Coal, 2.3 GW
- Catawba: Nuclear, 2.3 GW
- Bad Creek: Pumped storage, 1.6 GW
- Winyah: Coal, 1.1 GW
- V C Summer: Nuclear, 977 MW
- John S Rainey: Natural gas, 977 MW
- Jasper: Natural gas, 895 MW
- Broad River Energy Center: Natural gas, 864 MW
- W S Lee: Natural gas, 844 MW
Largest plants near Charleston
- Williams: Coal, 605 MW, 26 km away
- Hagood: Natural gas, 126 MW, 5 km away
- Bushy Park Combustion Turbine Facility: Natural gas, 42 MW, 25 km away
- Omtanke Solar: Solar, 6 MW, 45 km away
- Berkeley County Landfill: Biomass, 3 MW, 37 km away
Largest plants near Columbia
- V C Summer: Nuclear, 977 MW, 48 km away
- Wateree: Coal, 684 MW, 35 km away
- Columbia Energy Center (SC): Natural gas, 612 MW, 22 km away
- Fairfield Pumped Storage: Pumped storage, 604 MW, 50 km away
- McMeekin: Natural gas, 250 MW, 29 km away
Largest plants near Greenville
- Oconee: Nuclear, 2.6 GW, 47 km away
- W S Lee: Natural gas, 844 MW, 28 km away
- Jocassee: Pumped storage, 780 MW, 49 km away
- Keowee: Hydro, 152 MW, 45 km away
- Beaverdam Renewable Energy Center: Solar, 42 MW, 40 km away
Planned and under construction
27 generators planned, under construction or testing, 2.2 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 1.8 GW
- Battery storage: 305 MW
- Oil: 88 MW
Grid operators
- Duke Energy Carolinas (DUK): 82 plants
- South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCEG): 60 plants
- Duke Energy Progress East (CPLE): 46 plants
- South Carolina Public Service Authority (SC): 28 plants
- SEPA: 1 plant
Data centers
25 data center sites on the map.
- Berkeley County: 10 sites
- Greenville County: 3 sites
- Richland County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Google (10), DartPoints (4), DC Blox (3), Meta (2), CenturyLink (1), Cielo Digital Infrastructure (1), Green Cloud Technologies (1), Immedion (1), Spirit Communications (1), Terra Nexus Ventures (1)
Interconnection queue
193 active requests to connect 19.4 GW of new generation and storage, and 1 suspended request, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 8.3 GW in 115 requests
- Natural gas: 8.1 GW in 48 requests
- Battery storage: 2.2 GW in 19 requests
- Other: 537 MW in 8 requests
- Hydro: 160 MW in 2 requests
- Nuclear: 40 MW in 1 request
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)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); 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; 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; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; 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: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; 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
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain