Cliffside Steam Station
- Capacity: 760 megawatts
- Location: Cleveland and Rutherford counties, North Carolina
- Commercial Date: 1940
Cliffside Steam Station is a five-unit coal-fired generating facility located in Cleveland and Rutherford counties, North Carolina. Although it is part of the same station, unit 5 is located in Rutherford County, North Carolina, one-half mile from the other four units.
Duke Energy has made significant improvements to reduce emissions from the company’s coal-fired plants. Unit 5, Cliffside’s largest unit, is equipped with a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) device which reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by approximately 80 percent. Plans are underway to install flue gas desulfurization equipment — commonly known as scrubbers. This equipment will reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by approximately 95 percent.
The Cliffside facility has twice set the national safety record for fossil stations with over 3 million work hours without a lost-time accident.
In 2005, Duke Energy filed preliminary information with the N.C. Utilities Commission to modernize and expand Cliffside Steam Station. Learn more about the Cliffside modernization project.
