Sutton Combined Cycle Plant
- Capacity: 625 megawatts (MW)
- Location: Wilmington, N.C.
- Expected Commercial Operation: late-2013
Currently three coal-fired units at the Sutton Plant supply the area with generation. Once the new combined cycle plant comes online in late 2013, Duke Energy plans to retire the 575-megawatt (MW) coal plant.
With a projected investment of $600 million, the combined cycle plant is expected to take a total of 24 months to build and, by the end of the project, will have created more than 700 construction jobs. The new combined cycle plant provides customers with a cleaner source of energy and drastically reduces emissions compared to the steam station at the site. Emission reductions include:
- 93 percent reduction in nitrogen oxide
- 99.9 percent reduction in sulfur dioxides
- 65 percent reduction in particulate emissions
The Sutton Plant is also home to one of the company's largest renewable-energy projects, a 1.2-MW solar array.
