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Electric Service Facts

Summer Peak Load: 480 MW (Aug. 9, 2007)
Winter Peak Load: 499 MW (Feb. 20, 2015)
Average Daily Load: 226 MW (FY2021)

Three Main Components:

  • Services & Lighting
  • Generation & Power Supply
  • Transmission & Distribution

Services & Lighting Customers (as of June 30, 2023):
Total: 86,141                                                                           
Residential: 76,080
Non-Residential: 10,024
Industrial: 37

Street Lights
Inside City: 20,162 (Includes 255 Inside City – Pedestrian Light Fixtures)
Outside City: 1,755 (Includes 403 Private Outside City Street Lights)
Private Lighting Inside City: 3,095
Rented Area Lights: 12,841 (Includes 84 Hope Mills City Street Lights (Billed to Hope Mills)

Generation & Power Supply
•  200,000 kW of Combustion Turbines
•  65,000 kW Steam Turbine
•  Three 230 kV Delivery Points from Duke Energy Progress (DEP): Owen Drive, Butler-Warner Generation Plant (BWGP), Reilly Road
•  Connected to Regional Transmission Grid
•  Current Long-Term Power Supply Agreement: DEP-New Full Requirements Power Supply Agreement began July 2012 and with the 2019 modification expires June 2042; All capacity and energy needs of PWC customers provided by DEP. Power Sales Agreement with DEP provides an additional revenue stream through sale of capacity and energy from that facility that is used to offset increased power costs.
•  Built North Carolina’s first municipal Community Solar farm (1 MW) that helps meet state regulations for providing electricity from renewable resources.  Project includes 2MW battery storage unit that is used to reduce amount of energy purchased during peak times.

Distribution System
•  Supervisory Control System Monitors & Controls 32 Distribution Substations; 3 Points of Delivery (POD)
•  2.34 Miles of 230 kV Transmission Lines 
•  119.81 Circuit Miles of 69 kV Sub-Transmission Lines
•  114.36 Pole Miles of 69 kV Sub-Transmission lines
•  691.89 Circuit Miles of Overhead Distribution (2,232.12 Conductor Miles)
•  49,493 Distribution Line Poles (PWC Owned)
•  25,213 Distribution Line Transformers
•  667.82 Circuit Miles of Underground Primary Distribution Conductor (1,193.98 Cable/Conductor Miles)