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Narrows (NC)

Hydro power plant · Stanly County, North Carolina

Nameplate capacity
109 MW
Rank in North Carolina
#37
of 930 plants
In service since
2017
July 2017

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC
County
Stanly County
Generating units
4
Share of state capacity
0.27%
Rank among hydro plants in North Carolina
#6 of 38
EIA plant code
54894

Generating units

Individual generating units at Narrows (NC)
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
YN4Conventional Hydroelectric30 MW29 MW2024Operating
YN3Conventional Hydroelectric29 MW30 MW2017Operating
YN1Conventional Hydroelectric25 MW30 MW2017Operating
YN2Conventional Hydroelectric25 MW30 MW2017Operating

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 109 MW solar plant and a 109 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