Roxboro
Coal power plant · Person County, North Carolina
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Duke Energy Progress - (NC)
- County
- Person County
- Generating units
- 4
- Share of state capacity
- 6.38%
- Rank among coal plants in North Carolina
- #1 of 4
- EIA plant code
- 2712
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Conventional Steam Coal | 745 MW | 694 MW | 1973 | Operating |
| 4 | Conventional Steam Coal | 745 MW | 698 MW | 1980 | Operating |
| 2 | Conventional Steam Coal | 657 MW | 668 MW | 1968 | Operating |
| 1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 411 MW | 379 MW | 1966 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in North Carolina
| Belews Creek | Natural gas | 2,491 MW |
| McGuire | Nuclear | 2,441 MW |
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 2,558 MW solar plant and a 2,558 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