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Carpenter

Hydro power plant · Garland County, Arkansas

Nameplate capacity
56 MW
Rank in Arkansas
#51
of 122 plants
In service since
1932
January 1932

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Entergy Arkansas LLC
County
Garland County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.29%
Rank among hydro plants in Arkansas
#10 of 19
EIA plant code
166

Generating units

Individual generating units at Carpenter
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW30 MW1932Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric28 MW30 MW1932Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 56 MW solar plant and a 56 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Arkansas power plants · What Arkansas actually generates