The Buck Steam Station is a 369-MW formerly coal-fired electrical power plant, owned by Duke Energy.

The plant was originally three units, but a fourth was added when the company bought up an order cancelled by the Pentagon.

[1] Dukeville, North Carolina was built as a mill village along the banks of the Yadkin River in 1926 to house plant employees of the Buck Steam Station.

[2] In 2014, Dukeville residents were told that "coal ash pits near their homes could be leaching dangerous materials into groundwater.

"[3] In 2007, Duke Energy began to pursue permission to add two new combined cycle, natural gas-fired, 620 MW generating units to its fleet: one at the Dan River Steam Station in Rockingham County, the other at the Buck Steam Station.