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Long Creek Waste Water Plant

Other power plant · Gaston County, North Carolina

Nameplate capacity
5.1 MW
Rank in North Carolina
#212
of 930 plants
In service since
1995
January 1995

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Petroleum Liquids
Operator
City of Gastonia
County
Gaston County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among other plants in North Carolina
#23 of 69
EIA plant code
57630

Generating units

Individual generating units at Long Creek Waste Water Plant
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
ES1Petroleum Liquids1.7 MW1.7 MW1995Operating
ES2Petroleum Liquids1.7 MW1.7 MW1995Operating
ES3Petroleum Liquids1.7 MW1.7 MW1995Operating

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 5.1 MW solar plant and a 5.1 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