Duke Energy Dedicates State- Of-The-Art Natural Gas Facility

摘要

Duke Energy recently celebrated the opening of the Dan River Natural Gas Combined Cycle Station in Eden, NC. Located in Rockingham County, the state-of-the-art plant has an electric capacity of 620 megawatts (MW). The new station is part of the company's modernization effort to retire older, less-efficient coal plants and replace them with cleaner-burning natural gas-fueled units — resulting in decreased emissions and higher efficiency. Capable of powering approximately a half-million homes, the natural gas combined-cycle plant has nearly double the capacity of the older coal units that were retired on the site in 2012.