Power plant · South Carolina, United States

Myrtle Beach Power Plant

Myrtle Beach Power Plant is a power plant in South Carolina, United States, with 112 MW of capacity, owned by South Carolina Public Service Authority.

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	South Carolina	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1962	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	South Carolina Public Service Authority	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	South Carolina Public Service Authority	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	112 MW	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Petroleum Liquids	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	South Carolina Public Service Authority	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	115 kV (levels 115, 34.5 kV)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned retirement	2033 (112 MW retiring, 5 units, planned retirement reported to EIA)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	33.7083, -78.9241	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Myrtle Beach is the 20th-largest of 20 power plants in South Carolina and the 844th-largest of 885 in the United States by capacity; its 112 MW is <0.1% of the 856,654 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
South Carolina	20th of 20	21,693 MW	0.51%
United States	844th of 885	856,654 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,103rd of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

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

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
DC Blox Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station	Data center	—	—	4.2 km
Barefoot Pit	Mine	—	Operating	18 km

Owner, operator, grid operator and place

Other power plants in South Carolina

Oconee2,667 MW
Cross2,452 MW
Catawba2,410 MW
Bad Creek1,680 MW
Winyah1,276 MW
John S Rainey1,154 MW
Jasper1,068 MW
V C Summer1,030 MW

All 24 power plants in South Carolina, United States

Data on this page

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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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