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WAL872
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engineran 3% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2020
- Net generation, 2025
- 308 MWh
- Grid
- 0.5 kV to CenterPoint Energy (ERCO)
- Location
- Brazoria County, Texas
- Operated by
- Walmart Stores Texas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
- Gas
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- Technology
- Gas, reciprocating engine source: “Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine”
- Age
- 6 years since 2020
- Unused energy
- 10 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
- 10,006 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 3,082 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.029 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 10,006.5 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 308 |
| Balancing authority code | ERCO |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
3 sourcesSources EIA-860M · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Sources
- EIA-860M
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
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