{"id":17922,"date":"2026-08-04T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/plant\/lookout-shoals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:46:17","slug":"lookout-shoals","status":"publish","type":"wpp_plant","link":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/plant\/lookout-shoals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookout Shoals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lookout Shoals is a 25.8 MW hydro power plant in the United States, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas LLC since 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked #444 of 1,469 hydro plants in the United States. Its 25.8 MW represents 0.02% of the country&#8217;s total hydro capacity of 117,947 MW. The largest hydro plant in the United States is the Grand Coulee Dam at 6,809 MW, making Lookout Shoals 263 times smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby plants within 50 km include McGuire (2,440.6 MW, Nuclear) and Marshall (NC) (2,119 MW, Coal). The facility is located in North Carolina, approximately 40 km northwest of Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lookout Shoals is a 25.8 MW hydro power plant in the United States, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas LLC since 1916. Ranked #444 of 1,469 hydro plants in the United States. Its 25.8 MW represents 0.02% of the country&#8217;s total hydro capacity of 117,947 MW. The largest hydro plant in the United States is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"wpp_capacity_mw":25.8,"wpp_operator":"Duke Energy Carolinas  LLC","wpp_fuel_primary":"Hydro","wpp_commissioned_year":1916,"wpp_country_name":"United States of America","wpp_country_code":"USA","wpp_status_val":"Operational","wpp_lat":35.7575,"wpp_lng":-81.0894,"wpp_source_id":"29743","wpp_last_verified":"2026-07-28T02:07:49.277015+00:00","wpp_verification_source":"EIA-860M","wpp_data_quality":10,"wpp_wikipedia":"","footnotes":""},"wpp_fuel":[],"wpp_location":[],"wpp_status":[],"class_list":["post-17922","wpp_plant","type-wpp_plant","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpp_plant\/17922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpp_plant"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpp_plant"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpp_plant\/17922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wpp_fuel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpp_fuel?post=17922"},{"taxonomy":"wpp_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpp_location?post=17922"},{"taxonomy":"wpp_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.worldpowerplants.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpp_status?post=17922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}