Riverbend
BrownfieldMount Holly, Gaston, North Carolina · Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC
Riverbend is a coal plant in Mount Holly, Gaston, North Carolina, retired 2013-05-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 601 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Gaston County
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Riverbend — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G G Allen | coal plant | 1,148 | 12.0 mi | — |
| Sediver | natural gas plant | 520 | 29.8 mi | — |
| Apple Data Center - Fuel Cell 1&2 | natural gas plant | 11 | 22.8 mi | — |
| ReVenture - Biomass | former superfund site | 4 | 13.2 mi | cleanup_complete |
| Maiden Finger Street | oil plant | 2 | 20.6 mi | — |
| Gastonia Duke Street | oil plant | 2 | 13.0 mi | — |
| Gastonia Rankin Lake | oil plant | 2 | 12.6 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Riverbend, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEWPORT TIE | Substation-Adjacent | SC | York County | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 1.0 yrs | 74.3 |
| Sediver | Brownfield | SC | York County | — | 520 MW | 3.7 yrs | 71.2 |
| TAP150276 | Substation-Adjacent | SC | York County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 69.7 |
| CATAWBA 230KV SWITCHING STATION | Substation-Adjacent | SC | York County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 69.7 |
| UNKNOWN114800 | Substation-Adjacent | SC | York County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 1.0 yrs | 68.8 |
| ALLEN | Substation-Adjacent | NC | Mecklenburg County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 68.0 |
| MCGUIRE | Substation-Adjacent | NC | Mecklenburg County | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.7 |
| UNKNOWN112337 | Substation-Adjacent | NC | Mecklenburg County | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.3 |
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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