Electric utility · EIA utility id 5416
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC
- Ownership, as EIA reports it
- Investor Owned
- States served
- NC, SC
- Customers in 2025
- 2,962,438
- Sales in 2025
- 81,397,950 MWh
- Revenue in 2025
- $8,444,793,500
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861) · data for 2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
What it sells and charges
Full service (energy and delivery)
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue | Average price (cents per kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 2,543,170 | 30,785,856 | $4,133,462,300 | 13.43 |
| Commercial | 413,439 | 30,931,832 | $2,888,197,700 | 9.34 |
| Industrial | 5,828 | 19,667,768 | $1,421,908,500 | 7.23 |
| Transportation | 1 | 12,494 | $1,225,000 | 9.80 |
Its average price is 4% below the state average for residential customers (14.00 cents per kWh in NC).
How we got this
$4,133,462,300 residential revenue ÷ 30,785,856,000 kWh residential sales = 13.43 cents per kWh
Average price is revenue divided by sales, for full-service customers only. It averages every rate and every month, so one household's price can differ. State averages count revenue from every kind of service and sales only once, as EIA does.
Trends, 2021 to 2025
Trend table
| Year | Residential average price (cents per kWh) | Customers |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10.47 | 2,764,923 |
| 2022 | 10.70 | 2,791,712 |
| 2023 | 12.07 | 2,845,809 |
| 2024 | 13.95 | 2,907,065 |
| 2025 | 13.43 | 2,962,438 |
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861), 2021 to 2025 · data for 2021-2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Annual peak demand
Not reported to FERC. Only utilities that plan or balance their own system file Form 714.
Its balancing authority, Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, peaked at 21,931 MW in 2025. That is the balancing authority's peak, not this utility's.
Catalyst Cooperative (PUDL), from FERC Form 714 · Annual peak demand by planning area (FERC Form 714, through PUDL) · data for 2006-2025 · as of Oct 14, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Jan 14, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Reliability
| State | Standard | SAIDI with major events (minutes) | SAIFI with major events | SAIDI without major events (minutes) | SAIFI without major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC | IEEE 1366 | 215.66 | 1.352 | 171.87 | 1.216 |
| SC | IEEE 1366 | 219.78 | 1.262 | 140.63 | 1.071 |
SAIDI is the average minutes without power per customer in the year; SAIFI is how many outages the average customer had. Major event days are storms and similar rare days, counted with and without.
Generation it operates
| Fuel | Capacity | Net generation in 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 11,377.4 MW | 28,125,010 MWh |
| Nuclear | 7,517.5 MW | 61,340,066 MWh |
| Hydro | 3,538.8 MW | 566,440 MWh |
| Bituminous coal | 1,059.5 MW | 9,565,890 MWh |
| Solar | 253.5 MW | 318,836 MWh |
| Batteries | 50 MW | -1,510 MWh |
| Distillate fuel oil | 26,731 MWh |
This is generation the utility operates, not the full mix of power it buys. EIA does not publish that mix for each utility.
Plants it operates
- Bridgewater · NC · 27.7 MW
- Buck · NC · 697.9 MW
- James E. Rogers Energy Complex · NC · 1,530.5 MW
- Cowans Ford · NC · 350 MW
- Dan River · NC · 697.9 MW
- Lookout Shoals · NC · 25.8 MW
- Marshall (NC) · NC · 2,119 MW
- Mountain Island · NC · 60 MW
- Oxford Dam · NC · 36 MW
- Rhodhiss · NC · 25.5 MW
- Bear Creek Dam · NC · 9 MW
- Cedar Cliff · NC · 6.4 MW
- Nantahala · NC · 43.2 MW
- Tennessee Creek · NC · 10.8 MW
- Thorpe · NC · 21.6 MW
- Tuckasegee · NC · 3 MW
- McGuire · NC · 2,440.6 MW
- Queens Creek · NC · 1.4 MW
- Lincoln Combustion · NC · 2,155.6 MW
- Belews Creek · NC · 2,491.2 MW
- Rockingham County CT Station · NC · 977.5 MW
- DE Solar 10240 Old Dowd Rd · NC · 1.9 MW
- DE Solar 657 Brigham Rd · NC · 1.3 MW
- Mocksville Solar · NC · 15.4 MW
- Monroe Solar Facility · NC · 54.6 MW
- Baxter Creek Solar · NC · 0 MW
- Woodleaf Solar Facility · NC · 6 MW
- Maiden Creek Solar Power Plant · NC · 69.3 MW
- Gaston Solar Power Plant · NC · 25 MW
- Baxter Creek Solar · NC · 0 MW
- Allen 2 BESS · NC · 0 MW
- Allen 1 Battery Energy Storage System · NC · 50 MW
- Red Bud Solar Plant · NC · 80 MW
- Maiden Creek Battery · NC · 0 MW
- Nebo Energy Storage · NC · 0 MW
- Craggy Energy Storage · NC · 0 MW
- Frieden · NC · 0 MW
- Clark Creek Solar Plant · NC · 0 MW
- Cedar Creek (SC) · SC · 45 MW
- Dearborn · SC · 45 MW
- Fishing Creek · SC · 42.3 MW
- Great Falls (SC) · SC · 12 MW
- Jocassee · SC · 774 MW
- W S Lee · SC · 954.7 MW
- Oconee · SC · 2,666.7 MW
- Wateree Hydro · SC · 90.5 MW
- Wylie · SC · 60 MW
- 99 Islands · SC · 12 MW
- Catawba · SC · 2,410.2 MW
- Keowee · SC · 157.6 MW
- Bad Creek · SC · 1,680 MW
- Mill Creek (SC) · SC · 799.2 MW
- Duke Energy CHP at Clemson University · SC · 13.4 MW
- Beaverdam Renewable Energy Center · SC · 0 MW
- Longtown Energy Storage · SC · 0 MW
- Bush River Solar Plant · SC · 0 MW
- Robinson Solar Plant · SC · 0 MW
- Hudson Place Solar Plant · SC · 0 MW
Published rates
82 rates in the OpenEI database, newest updated Apr 1, 2026.
OpenEI (National Laboratory of the Rockies), with rates entered by contributors · U.S. Utility Rate Database (OpenEI) · data for 2026-10 · as of Oct 30, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Nov 30, 2026. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.