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WAL5388 — Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine · Walmart Stores Texas, LLCBerkman Storage — Storage · TX · 100 MW · 3.5 km awayHidden Lakes — Storage · TX · 9.9 MW · 6.0 km awayRed Egret — Storage · TX · 310.6 MW · 9.7 km awayVertus Energy Storage Plant — Storage · TX · 204.9 MW · 9.9 km awayBocanova Energy Storage II — Storage · TX · 150 MW · 16.1 km awayZeya — Storage · TX · 255.3 MW · 16.4 km awayNET Power La Porte Station — Gas, combustion turbine · TX · 25.5 MW · 19.9 km awayWillow Beach Wind — Wind · TX · 202.3 MW · 24.9 km away
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Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engineran 2% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2020
Net generation, 2025
178 MWh
Grid
0.5 kV to Texas-New Mexico Power Co (ERCO)
Location
Galveston County, Texas
Operated by
Walmart Stores Texas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2021 to 2025
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2021 to 2025
  • Gas

Operations detail

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Technology
Gas, reciprocating engine source: “Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine”
Age
6 years since 2020
Unused energy
11 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
9,579 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Grid
Nerc region
TRE
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
0.500
Transmission owner
Texas-New Mexico Power Co
Balancing authority code
ERCO
Balancing authority name
Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 20251,705
Capacity factor, 20250.016
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 20259,578.7
Net generation (MWh), 2025178
Balancing authority codeERCO

Timeline

  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 25 km
Projects within 25 km, nearest first.
ProjectKindAwayMW
Berkman Storage Postponed Storage 3.5 km 100
Hidden Lakes Postponed Storage 6.0 km 9.9
Red Egret Under construction Storage 9.7 km 310.6
Vertus Energy Storage Plant Studied Storage 9.9 km 204.9
Bocanova Energy Storage II Under construction Storage 16.1 km 150
Zeya Under construction Storage 16.4 km 255.3
NET Power La Porte Station Studied Gas, combustion turbine 19.9 km 25.5
Willow Beach Wind Contracted Wind 24.9 km 202.3

Sources EIA-860M · ERCOT

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