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- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Shell Deer Park
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 47% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1979
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,123,235 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to CenterPoint Energy (ERCO)
- Location
- Harris County, Texas
Output
- Gas
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Shell USA
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- Technology
- Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
- Age
- 47 years since 1979
- Unused energy
- 1,277 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
- 13,094 Btu/kWh 2025
All 9 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| Grid |
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| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
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| Eia status |
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| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 14,707,375 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.468 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 13,093.8 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 1,123,235 |
| Balancing authority code | ERCO |
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Park Refinery Limited Partnership (DPRLP) | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| SHELL USA | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
5 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Sources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 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)
Around this plant
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Sources EIA-860M · ERCOT · EPA ICIS-NPDES