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Robstown — Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine · City of Robstown - (TX)BEACON POINT DATA CENTER PROJECT — Large load · TX · 5.8 km awaySunscape Renewable Energy — Solar + storage · TX · 1,022.8 MW · 13.2 km awayM&G Resins USA — Other · TX · 28.6 MW · 17.2 km awayCumbia Energy Center — Storage · TX · 200 MW · 22.5 km away
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  • Wind & solar
  • Storage
  • Unspecified fuel
  • Loads
  • In development
  • Under construction
  • Retired
  • Size not stated
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Robstown

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engineran 2% of 2004 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1955
Net generation, 2004
3,943 MWh
Location
Nueces County, Texas
Operated by
City of Robstown - (TX)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2004
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2004
  • Gas
  • Oil

Operations detail

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Technology
Gas, reciprocating engine source: “Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine”
Age
71 years since 1955

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Retired
December 2004
Capacity retired
20.9 MW
Generators retired
8
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
10Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine4.1 MWRetiredDecember 2004
11Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine5 MWRetiredDecember 2004
3Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine2.4 MWRetiredDecember 2004
4Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine2.4 MWRetiredDecember 2004
5Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine2.4 MWRetiredDecember 2004
7Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine1 MWRetiredDecember 2004
8Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine1 MWRetiredDecember 2004
9Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine2.6 MWRetiredDecember 2004

Grid

Not in EIA-860Grid fieldsEIA-860 states no grid voltage or transmission owner for this plant: its annual file lists plants with a generator in the report year, so a plant that retired earlier is not in it.
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
Connection points within 25 km (1)
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 Units 10, 11, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 scheduled to retire, 20.9 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

5 sources

Sources EIA-860M · OpenStreetMap · ERCOT · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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Sources

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 25 km
ProjectKindAwayMW
BEACON POINT DATA CENTER PROJECT Under construction Large load 5.8 km
Sunscape Renewable Energy Contracted Solar + storage 13.2 km 1,022.8
M&G Resins USA Under construction Other 17.2 km 28.6
Cumbia Energy Center Announced Storage 22.5 km 200

Sources EPA ICIS-NPDES · ERCOT · EIA-860M