Retired coal power-station site in North Carolina, United States of America. Approximate location 36.4364, -77.6167.
CoalNorth CarolinaUnited States of AmericasubcriticalRetired
Roanoke Valley Energy Facility I is a retired coal power station in North Carolina, United States of America. Its current lifecycle status is “Retired” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. It ranks #2119 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1854.
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The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: EIA-860M May 2026 retired generator inventory, summed by Plant ID; fuel: Climate TRACE
At 182.3 MW, Roanoke Valley Energy Facility I is below the median coal plant in United States of America (558 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its lifecycle status is Retired; it no longer generates electricity. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #602 largest coal power plant of 802 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 802 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 621,194 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 36.4364, -77.6167 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Roanoke Valley Energy Facility I was a coal-fired power station in North Carolina, United States of America and was retired.
