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Copper — Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine · El Paso Electric CoOPPIDAN EL PASO DATA CENTER — Large load · TX · 11.8 km away
  • Combustion
  • Loads
  • Operating
  • Size not stated
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Copper

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 4% of 2025 Retiring
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1980
Net generation, 2025
27,840 MWh
Grid
115 kV to El Paso Electric Co (EPE)
Location
El Paso County, Texas
Operated by
El Paso Electric CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2025
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2025
  • Gas

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
El Paso Electric CoSource100.0%, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT), as of 31 Dec 2023

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Technology
Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
Age
46 years since 1980
Heat rate
17,473 Btu/kWh 2025
All 7 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Parents
Name
City of Holland
Share pct
100
Gem entity id
E100000002215
Unit ids
G100000402577
Location id
L100000401789
Eia plant ids
9, 60910
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)
EPA FRS ID
110005162457
Subparts reported
C
NAICS code
221112
Subpart PP (CO2 supply)
No
Subpart RR (geologic sequestration)
No
Subpart UU (CO2 injection)
No
Reporting year
2023
GHGRP facility ID
1000540
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025486,438
Capacity factor, 20250.037
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 202517,472.6
Net generation (MWh), 202527,840.0
Balancing authority codeEPE

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusAt least half of the plant's in-service nameplate capacity is scheduled to retire, on dates its owner has reported to EIA. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Next scheduled retirement
December 2030
Capacity scheduled to retire
86.9 MW
Generators scheduled to retire
1
Share of in-service capacity scheduled
100%
Capacity still in service
86.9 MW
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
1Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine86.9 MWScheduled to retireDecember 2030

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
115 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
El Paso Electric Co
Balancing authority
El Paso Electric Company
NERC region
WECC
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

  • Stated Unit 1 scheduled to retire, 86.9 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · OpenStreetMap · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

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Sources

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within 25 km
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Sources EPA ICIS-NPDES