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- Under construction
- Operating
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- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Wind & solar
- Loads
- In development
- Under construction
- Operating
- Size not stated
Decker Creek: location and 9 exact-grade projects within 15 mi. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Decker Creek
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1988
- Net generation, 2025
- 0 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Austin Energy (ERCO)
- Location
- Travis County, Texas
- Operated by
- Austin EnergySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
- Gas
- Oil
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Austin EnergySource100.0%, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT), as of Dec 31, 2023
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- Technology
- Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
- Age
- 38 years since 1988
All 4 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 0 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 0 |
| Balancing authority code | ERCO |
Data notes (1)
- Capacity factor, 2025 not shown: net generation 0.0 MWh is not positive (the plant consumed at least as much as it produced over the year)
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Capacity retired
- 726 MW
- Generators retired
- 2
- Capacity still in service
- 206 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 321 MW | Retired | October 2020 |
| 2 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 405 MW | Retired | March 2022 |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 138 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- Austin Energy
- Balancing authority
- Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.
- NERC region
- TRE
Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)
- Power cable, voltage not stated (OSM way 509273286)
- Power cable, voltage not stated (OSM way 509273287)
- 138 kV line (OSM way 509273283)
- Power cable, voltage not stated (OSM way 509273258)
- 138 kV line (OSM way 509273285)
- Power cable, voltage not stated (OSM way 509273288)
- 138 kV line (OSM way 509273281)
- 138 kV line (OSM way 339106852)
- Power cable, voltage not stated (OSM way 509273319)
- Power cable, voltage not stated (OSM way 509273310)
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 2 scheduled to retire, 405 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Unit 1 scheduled to retire, 321 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
5 sourcesSources EIA-860M · 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)
© OpenStreetMap contributors
Sources
- EIA-860M
- OpenStreetMap© OpenStreetMap contributors. Power lines, cables and substations filtered and reshaped by Inframation from the OpenStreetMap elements in Overture Maps' base/infrastructure theme; this derived database is available under the Open Database License 1.0 as GeoParquet files at https://tiles.inframation.io/grid/osm-power/ (latest.json names the current version's files; licence: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- 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 EIA-860M · FAA OE/AAA · EPA ICIS-NPDES