Power Plants Near 28748 — Leicester, NC

38 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 28748 (Leicester, North Carolina). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 35.6498, -82.7106 · County: Buncombe

Hydroelectric 70%Natural Gas 28%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
0.5 mi	Innovative Solar 6 Leicester, NC	Solar	4 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
3.6 mi	Marshall Dam Marshall, NC	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
6.3 mi	Metropolitan Sewerage District Asheville, NC	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Metropolitan Sewerage District
6.3 mi	Woodfin Solar Asheville, NC	Solar	5 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
6.4 mi	Riverside Bess Asheville, NC	Battery Storage	—	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
8.6 mi	Woodfin Woodfin, NC	Natural Gas	—	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
8.7 mi	Enka Enka, NC	Coal	—	Basf Corporation
9.2 mi	Biltmore Solar Fields Asheville, NC	Solar	2 MW	The Biltmore Company
9.9 mi	Ivy River Hydro Marshall, NC	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Madison Hydro Partners
13.2 mi	Asheville-Rock Hill Battery Asheville, NC	Other Fossil	9 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
15.5 mi	Asheville Arden, NC	Natural Gas	1,012 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
15.8 mi	Innovative Solar 10 Canton, NC	Solar	2 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
17.8 mi	Hot Springs Energy Storage & Microgrid Hot Springs, NC	Solar	6 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
19.3 mi	Walters Waterville, NC	Hydroelectric	108 MW	Duke Energy Progress - (Nc)
26.5 mi	Sawtell Solar Hendersonville, NC	Solar	3 MW	Sawtell Solar, Llc
27.8 mi	Innovative Solar 14, Llc Hendersonville, NC	Solar	2 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
28.3 mi	Innovative Solar 16 Hendersonville, NC	Solar	2 MW	Cypress Creek Renewables
33.3 mi	Tuxedo Flat Rock, NC	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Northbrook Tuxedo, Llc
33.4 mi	Lake Lure Lake Lure, NC	Hydroelectric	4 MW	Lake Lure Town Of
34.3 mi	Tennessee Creek Tuckasegee, NC	Hydroelectric	11 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
34.7 mi	Bear Creek Dam Tuckasegee, NC	Hydroelectric	9 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
35.0 mi	Cedar Cliff Tuckasegee, NC	Hydroelectric	6 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
36.4 mi	Tuckasegee Tuckasegee, NC	Hydroelectric	3 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
36.7 mi	Turner Shoals Mill Springs, NC	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Northbrook Carolina Hydro Llc
37.0 mi	Thorpe Tuckasegee, NC	Hydroelectric	22 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
37.4 mi	Sr Greenville Ii Greeneville, TN	Solar	5 MW	Sr Greenville Ii, Llc
42.5 mi	Sr Albany, Llc Greenville, TN	Solar	—	Sr Albany, Llc
42.9 mi	Sr Jonesborough Jonesborough, TN	Solar	4 MW	Sr Jonesborough Ii, Llc
44.6 mi	Sr Greenville I Limestone, TN	Solar	5 MW	Sr Greenville I, Llc
45.8 mi	Sr White Pine, Llc White Pine, TN	Solar	2 MW	Sr White Pine, Llc
46.6 mi	Westminister Nc Rutherfordton, NC	Solar	—	Ecoplexus, Inc
47.2 mi	Bad Creek Salem, SC	Hydroelectric	1,584 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
47.6 mi	Franklin (Nc) Franklin, NC	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Northbrook Carolina Hydro Ii, Llc
48.6 mi	Sr Washington I, Llc Jonesborough, TN	Solar	9 MW	Sr Washington I, Llc
49.1 mi	Jocassee Salem, SC	Hydroelectric	774 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
49.2 mi	Mountain Home Energy Center Mountain Home, TN	Oil	7 MW	Energy Systems Group Llc
49.4 mi	Bridgewater Morganton, NC	Hydroelectric	28 MW	Duke Energy Carolinas, Llc
49.8 mi	Amethyst Solar Forest City, NC	Solar	3 MW	Amethyst Solar Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 38 power plants within 50 miles of Leicester, North Carolina (ZIP 28748), with a combined 3,648 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 16 of the 38 nearby plants. The closest plant is Innovative Solar 6 at 0.5 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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