Sutton Plant

Sutton Plant
Sutton Plant slideshow 
 
Retirement: 2013
Capacity: 575 megawatts
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina
Commercial Date: 1954
Status: Retired and demolished

The three-unit, 575-megawatt coal-fired Sutton Plant was located near Wilmington, N.C., on a site that also includes three small combustion turbines. The coal-fired units were retired in November 2013. Removal of the coal plant and older combustion turbines was completed in 2017 through a combination of implosions and mechanical demolition. 

Sutton Plant is now home to a 625-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle plant, which provides highly efficient electric generation while reducing air emissions compared to the previous coal plant. The combined-cycle plant came online in 2013.

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Sutton Plant

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Sutton Plant

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Sutton Plant

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Sutton Plant

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Sutton Plant

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Plant Happenings

Information included in recent neighbor updates, along with work and progress at the site.

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Oct. 6, 2017
 Learn more about our emergency action plans for coal ash facilities. Ash basins continue to operate safely and are highly regulated. Removing water and permanently closing basins, work that is already planned or underway, adds an additional margin of safety. Inundation maps are planning tools that illustrate a worst-case scenario and depict the areas that could be impacted in the unlikely event of a complete dam failure.

07/07/2017

First load of coal ash delivered to the on-site fully lined landfill at the Sutton Plant. The new landfill will ultimately store around 5 million tons of coal ash from ash basins at the site.

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