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Sim Gideon
Power plant · Gas, steam turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 15% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Net generation, 2025
- 826,681 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Lower Colorado River Authority (ERCO)
- Location
- Bastrop County, Texas
- Operated by
- Lower Colorado River AuthoritySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 826,681
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 9,284,017
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 15.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 11,230
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 826,681 | 9,284,017 | 15.2% | 11,230 |
| 2024 | 1,043,148 | 11,789,837 | 19.1% | 11,302 |
| 2023 | 1,195,711 | 13,510,214 | 21.9% | 11,299 |
| 2022 | 851,483 | 9,729,470 | 15.6% | 11,426 |
| 2021 | 662,018 | 7,450,346 | 12.1% | 11,254 |
| 2020 | 647,109 | 7,151,224 | 11.8% | 11,051 |
| 2019 | 742,860 | 7,963,747 | 13.6% | 10,720 |
| 2018 | 550,196 | 6,092,377 | 10.1% | 11,073 |
| 2017 | 326,136 | 3,702,857 | 6.0% | 11,354 |
| 2016 | 402,187 | 4,570,838 | 7.3% | 11,365 |
| 2015 | 278,027 | 3,212,924 | 5.1% | 11,556 |
| 2014 | 143,130 | 1,719,997 | 2.6% | 12,017 |
| 2013 | 268,131 | 3,143,235 | 4.9% | 11,723 |
| 2012 | 306,069 | 3,596,439 | 5.6% | 11,750 |
| 2011 | 553,551 | 6,679,337 | 10.1% | 12,066 |
| 2010 | 879,045 | 10,175,771 | 16.1% | 11,576 |
| 2009 | 958,255 | 11,651,777 | 17.6% | 12,159 |
| 2008 | 1,055,642 | 12,162,226 | 19.3% | 11,521 |
| 2007 | 1,001,793 | 11,685,020 | 18.4% | 11,664 |
| 2006 | 763,299 | 8,865,117 | 14.0% | 11,614 |
| 2005 | 803,442 | 9,411,508 | 14.7% | 11,714 |
| 2004 | 968,032 | 10,209,913 | 17.7% | 10,547 |
| 2003 | 1,207,467 | 12,457,250 | 22.1% | 10,317 |
| 2002 | 1,309,562 | 14,007,333 | 24.0% | 10,696 |
| 2001 | 1,475,704 | 15,440,789 | 27.0% | 10,463 |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.