Project Overview

In June 2008, the North Carolina Utilities Commission approved Duke Energy’s request for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) to add two 620-megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle generating units at two existing facilities: Buck Steam Station in Rowan County, N.C. and Dan River Steam Station in Rockingham County, N.C. The plan includes retiring two older, less efficient coal units at each facility.

Both projects will use state-of-the-art environmental control technology to minimize plant emissions. These controls, in combination, with the retirement of older coal-fired units at both facilities, will reduce nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions at both sites.

Adding new natural gas generation is part of Duke Energy’s strategy to maintain a diverse fuel portfolio and to ensure an affordable, reliable and cleaner energy supply for our customers in the future. Our long-term plan also includes aggressively pursuing more renewable power sources and energy efficiency programs, in addition to baseload, intermediate and peaking generation.