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Spencer: location and 5 exact-grade projects within 25 km. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
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Power plant · Gas, steam turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 2% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1966
- Net generation, 2025
- 19,674 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to City of Denton - (TX) (ERCO)
- Location
- Denton County, Texas
- Operated by
- City of Garland - (TX)
Output
- Gas
- Oil
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- City of Garland
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- Technology
- Gas, steam turbine source: “Natural Gas Steam Turbine”
- Age
- 60 years since 1966
- Unused energy
- 1,088 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
- 16,451 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 323,662 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.018 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 16,451.3 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 19,674 |
| Balancing authority code | ERCO |
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
- 47.2 MW
- Generators retired
- 3
- Capacity still in service
- 126.5 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 22 MW | Retired | May 2005 |
| 1 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 12.6 MW | Retired | December 2005 |
| 2 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 12.6 MW | Retired | December 2005 |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 69 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- City of Denton - (TX)
- Balancing authority
- Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.
- NERC region
- TRE
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
- 69 kV line (OSM way 1338649894)
- 138 kV line (OSM way 1338649893)
- Power line, voltage not stated (OSM way 1338649901)
- Power line, voltage not stated (OSM way 1338649900)
- DME 138 kV line (OSM way 1338649902)
- 69 kV line (OSM way 1338649896)
- DME 138 kV line (OSM way 1338649907)
- 69 kV line (OSM way 1338649908)
- DME 138 kV line (OSM way 374065813)
- 138 kV line (OSM way 1338649909)
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.
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Garland - (TX) | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| City of Garland | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
Timeline
- Stated Units 1, 2 scheduled to retire, 25.2 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Unit 3 scheduled to retire, 22 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 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- OpenStreetMap power network, US — transmission lines and cables (69 kV and up, or voltage not tagged) and substations, from Geofabrik's US state extracts© 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)
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: 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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