North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives maintains a diverse power portfolio that currently breaks down as follows:
Through North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives, we acquire power in many ways, including:
- Ownership of a 61.51% share of the Catawba Nuclear Station’s Unit 1 in York County, S.C.
- Ownership of a 13.33% share of the 750-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas plant at W.S. Lee Station in Anderson County, S.C. that began service in April 2018
- Ownership and operation of natural gas peak generating plants located in Anson and Richmond counties. These plants provide a combined capacity of 672 megawatts.
- Ownership and operation of peaking generators on the Outer Banks at Buxton (15 megawatts) and Ocracoke (3 megawatts)
- Purchases from wholesale markets, primarily PJM, and wholesale suppliers such as Duke Energy, American Electric Power (AEP), Southern Power, BP Energy Company, Shell, and Morgan Stanley