Power plant · North Carolina, United States

L V Sutton Steam Power Plant

L V Sutton Steam Power Plant is a closed coal power plant in North Carolina, United States, with 763 MW of capacity, operated by Duke Energy Progress - (NC).

Grid connection

It closed in 2017, which freed up a 763 MW grid connection at 230 kV to the grid of Duke Energy Progress - (NC), unless it has been reassigned since.

Retiring power plants in the United States

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	North Carolina	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Closed	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1954	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
End year	2017	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Duke Energy Progress - (NC)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	763 MW (nameplate of its retired generators)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Conventional Steam Coal	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Duke Energy Progress - (NC)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	230 kV	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	34.2831, -77.9853	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

L V Sutton Steam is the 18th-largest of 23 power plants in North Carolina and the 467th-largest of 1,009 in the United States by capacity; its 763 MW is <0.1% of the 917,512 MW we hold for the United States. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
North Carolina	18th of 23	29,976 MW	2.5%
United States	467th of 1,009	917,512 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	755th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

1954Started operating
2017Retired

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 1 mine, measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
421 Sand	Mine	—	Operating	11 km

Operator, grid operator and place

Other power plants in North Carolina

Roxboro2,558 MW
Belews Creek2,491 MW
McGuire2,441 MW
Sherwood H Smith Jr Energy Complex2,245 MW
Lincoln Combustion2,156 MW
Marshall (NC)2,119 MW
Brunswick Nuclear2,003 MW
James E. Rogers Energy Complex1,531 MW

All 28 power plants in North Carolina, United States

Data on this page

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
MSHA Mines Data Set. MSHA Mines Data Set, Public domain.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
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