HEB00057

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine Operating

Commissioned: 2017
Net generation, 2025: 238 MWh
Grid: 138 kV to AEP Texas Central Company (ERCO)
Location: Nueces County, Texas
Operated by: Texas Microgrid, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Net generation MWh by year, 2021 to 2025

Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2021 to 2025

No companies named in filings yet.

Interested in this project?

Our team gets you what you need.

Beta: private project space · data room · readiness check

Technology: Gas, reciprocating engine source: “Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine”
Age: 9 years since 2017
Unused energy: 10 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
Heat rate: 14,361 Btu/kWh 2025

All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Attributes
Attribute	Value
Grid	Nerc region TRE Report year 2025 Grid voltage kv 138 Transmission owner AEP Texas Central Company Balancing authority code ERCO Balancing authority name Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025	3,418
Capacity factor, 2025	0.023
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025	14,361.3
Net generation (MWh), 2025	238
Balancing authority code	ERCO

3 sources

Sources

EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Projects within 15 mi, nearest first.
Project	Kind	Away	MW
Cumbia Energy Center Announced	Storage	11.5 mi	200

Sources