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Asheville-Rock Hill Battery

Battery storage power plant · Buncombe County, North Carolina

Nameplate capacity
8.8 MW
Rank in North Carolina
#182
of 930 plants
In service since
2020
August 2020

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
Duke Energy Progress - (NC)
County
Buncombe County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among battery storage plants in North Carolina
#8 of 34
EIA plant code
63064

Generating units

Individual generating units at Asheville-Rock Hill Battery
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
ES1Batteries8.8 MW8.8 MW2020Operating

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 8.8 MW solar plant and a 8.8 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 North Carolina power plants · What North Carolina actually generates