Power Plants Near 28709 — Barnardsville, NC

45 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 28709 (Barnardsville, North Carolina). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 35.7748, -82.4567 · County: Buncombe

Natural Gas 70%Hydroelectric 24%Solar 5%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
9.1 mi	Ivy River Hydro Marshall, NC	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Madison Hydro Partners
10.3 mi	Woodfin Woodfin, NC	Natural Gas	—	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
11.2 mi	Woodfin Solar Asheville, NC	Solar	5 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
11.8 mi	Metropolitan Sewerage District Asheville, NC	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Metropolitan Sewerage District
12.1 mi	Riverside Bess Asheville, NC	Battery Storage	—	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
15.1 mi	Marshall Dam Marshall, NC	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
16.4 mi	Innovative Solar 6 Leicester, NC	Solar	4 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
16.5 mi	Biltmore Solar Fields Asheville, NC	Solar	2 MW	The Biltmore Company
16.6 mi	Asheville-Rock Hill Battery Asheville, NC	Other Fossil	9 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
19.9 mi	Enka Enka, NC	Coal	—	Basf Corporation
21.4 mi	Asheville Arden, NC	Natural Gas	1,012 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
22.1 mi	Hot Springs Energy Storage & Microgrid Hot Springs, NC	Solar	6 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
27.6 mi	Sawtell Solar Hendersonville, NC	Solar	3 MW	Sawtell Solar, Llc
28.6 mi	Lake Lure Lake Lure, NC	Hydroelectric	4 MW	Lake Lure Town Of
28.6 mi	Innovative Solar 14, Llc Hendersonville, NC	Solar	2 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
29.0 mi	Innovative Solar 16 Hendersonville, NC	Solar	2 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
32.0 mi	Innovative Solar 10 Canton, NC	Solar	2 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
32.8 mi	Sr Greenville Ii Greeneville, TN	Solar	5 MW	Sr Greenville Ii, Llc
33.2 mi	Sr Jonesborough Jonesborough, TN	Solar	4 MW	Sr Jonesborough Ii, Llc
33.8 mi	Walters Waterville, NC	Hydroelectric	108 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
34.0 mi	Turner Shoals Mill Springs, NC	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Northbrook Carolina Hydro Llc
34.8 mi	Bridgewater Morganton, NC	Hydroelectric	28 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
36.8 mi	Tuxedo Flat Rock, NC	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Northbrook Tuxedo, Llc
37.2 mi	Mountain Home Energy Center Mountain Home, TN	Oil	7 MW	Energy Systems Group Llc
37.5 mi	Westminister Nc Rutherfordton, NC	Solar	—	Ecoplexus, Inc
38.4 mi	Sr Greenville I Limestone, TN	Solar	5 MW	Sr Greenville I, Llc
39.9 mi	Morganton Station 5 Morganton, NC	Oil	2 MW	North Carolina Mun Power Agny #1
40.3 mi	Sr Washington I, Llc Jonesborough, TN	Solar	9 MW	Sr Washington I, Llc
40.9 mi	Water Filter Plant #2 Morganton, NC	Oil	2 MW	City Of Morganton - (Nc)
41.1 mi	Sr Albany, Llc Greenville, TN	Solar	—	Sr Albany, Llc
43.3 mi	Watauga Elizabethton, TN	Hydroelectric	58 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
43.3 mi	Wilbur Elizabethon, TN	Hydroelectric	11 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
43.5 mi	Amethyst Solar Forest City, NC	Solar	3 MW	Amethyst Solar Llc
44.4 mi	Catawba River Pollution Control Morganton, NC	Oil	1 MW	City Of Morganton - (Nc)
44.7 mi	Morganton, Parker Road Morganton, NC	Oil	2 MW	North Carolina Mun Power Agny #1
45.1 mi	Lincoln Solar, Llc (Nc) Bostic, NC	Solar	5 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
45.1 mi	Bostic Delivery No 2 Bostic, NC	Oil	1 MW	North Carolina Mun Power Agny #1
45.9 mi	Sr Gray Gray, TN	Solar	—	Sr Gray, Llc
46.0 mi	Boone Dam Kingsport, TN	Hydroelectric	106 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
46.2 mi	Innovative Solar 18, Llc Bostic, NC	Solar	2 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
46.5 mi	Gamble Solar Bostic, NC	Solar	3 MW	Oppidum Renewables Usa, Llc
47.3 mi	Clear Solar I, Llc Forest City, NC	Solar	4 MW	Clear Solar I, Llc
47.7 mi	Drexel Operations Center Drexel, NC	Oil	2 MW	North Carolina Mun Power Agny #1
49.0 mi	Old Caroleen Solar Farm Forest City, NC	Solar	2 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
49.5 mi	Tennessee Creek Tuckasegee, NC	Hydroelectric	11 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 45 power plants within 50 miles of Barnardsville, North Carolina (ZIP 28709), with a combined 1,446 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 21 of the 45 nearby plants. The closest plant is Ivy River Hydro at 9.1 miles.

Nameplate capacity is the maximum output a plant can produce under ideal conditions — actual generation depends on fuel availability, demand, and maintenance schedules. Capacity factor (shown on individual plant pages) measures how much of that theoretical maximum a plant actually delivers over a year. Nuclear plants typically run above 90%; solar and wind range from 20–45% depending on location and weather.

All data comes from federal EIA and EPA releases. For a printable version of this proximity search, use the report link below. To explore all plants in North Carolina, visit the North Carolina state page.

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