Power plants in Texas

1,074 operating power projects with 201,233 MW of nameplate capacity, from EIA-860M for August 2026.

Projects

1,074

Nameplate capacity

201,233 MW

Counties with a plant

199

Operators

560

Power markets: ERCOT prices, SPP prices

Capacity by fuel

MW is nameplate from operating generators and batteries. Plant counts use each project's primary fuel, so a coal and gas plant counts once.

Largest power plants in Texas

Top 50 · All 1,074 plants
PlantPrimary fuelMWCountyOperator
W A ParishCoal and natural gas4,008Fort BendNRG Texas Power LLC
South Texas ProjectNuclear2,709MatagordaSTP Nuclear Operating Co
Comanche PeakNuclear2,430SomervellLuminant Generation Company LLC
Martin LakeCoal2,380RuskLuminant Generation Company LLC
Forney Energy CenterNatural gas1,894KaufmanLaFrontera Holdings LLC
LimestoneCoal1,850LimestoneNRG Texas Power LLC
SabineNatural gas1,812OrangeEntergy Texas Inc.
Oak Grove (TX)Coal1,795RobertsonLuminant Generation Company LLC
Midlothian Energy FacilityNatural gas1,734EllisMidlothian Energy LLC
Fayette Power ProjectCoal1,690FayetteLower Colorado River Authority

Texas power plants by fuel

Newest plants in Texas

Ordered by the month the first generator began operating.

Counties with the most capacity

Largest operators in Texas

Grouped by EIA operator name. Parent companies are not merged.

All 1,074 plants in Texas, by county

Andrews County 8 plants

Angelina County 3 plants

Archer County 2 plants

Armstrong County 1 plant

Atascosa County 2 plants

Austin County 2 plants

Bailey County 1 plant

Bandera County 2 plants

Bastrop County 4 plants

Bee County 5 plants

Bell County 12 plants

Bexar County 26 plants

Blanco County 1 plant

Borden County 7 plants

Bosque County 7 plants

Brazoria County 41 plants

Brazos County 5 plants

Brewster County 2 plants

Briscoe County 2 plants

Brooks County 3 plants

Brown County 1 plant

Burnet County 3 plants

Caldwell County 1 plant

Calhoun County 8 plants

Callahan County 4 plants

Cameron County 21 plants

Carson County 9 plants

Cass County 1 plant

Castro County 2 plants

Chambers County 6 plants

Cherokee County 1 plant

Childress County 2 plants

Clay County 1 plant

Cochran County 1 plant

Coke County 2 plants

Collin County 13 plants

Colorado County 1 plant

Comal County 2 plants

Comanche County 1 plant

Concho County 4 plants

Cooke County 7 plants

Coryell County 1 plant

Crane County 3 plants

Crockett County 3 plants

Crosby County 4 plants

Culberson County 5 plants

Dallas County 16 plants

Dawson County 4 plants

Deaf Smith County 3 plants

Delta County 1 plant

Denton County 11 plants

Dickens County 3 plants

Dimmit County 3 plants

Donley County 1 plant

Eastland County 6 plants

Ector County 18 plants

El Paso County 11 plants

Ellis County 5 plants

Erath County 3 plants

Falls County 5 plants

Fannin County 4 plants

Fayette County 3 plants

Fisher County 2 plants

Floyd County 5 plants

Foard County 2 plants

Fort Bend County 24 plants

Franklin County 2 plants

Freestone County 3 plants

Frio County 5 plants

Galveston County 19 plants

Glasscock County 6 plants

Goliad County 2 plants

Grayson County 7 plants

Gregg County 1 plant

Grimes County 4 plants

Guadalupe County 7 plants

Hale County 4 plants

Hamilton County 1 plant

Hansford County 3 plants

Hardeman County 1 plant

Hardin County 1 plant

Harris County 83 plants

Harrison County 3 plants

Haskell County 7 plants

Hays County 2 plants

Henderson County 4 plants

Hidalgo County 30 plants

Hill County 9 plants

Hood County 3 plants

Hopkins County 5 plants

Howard County 7 plants

Hunt County 5 plants

Hutchinson County 3 plants

Irion County 1 plant

Jack County 4 plants

Jackson County 1 plant

Jasper County 2 plants

Jefferson County 8 plants

Jim Hogg County 1 plant

Jim Wells County 3 plants

Johnson County 1 plant

Jones County 2 plants

Karnes County 3 plants

Kaufman County 3 plants

Kenedy County 5 plants

Kent & Stonewall County 1 plant

Kent County 2 plants

Kimble County 2 plants

Kinney County 3 plants

Knox County 4 plants

La Salle County 2 plants

Lamar County 9 plants

Lamb County 3 plants

Leon County 1 plant

Liberty County 1 plant

Limestone County 7 plants

Llano County 2 plants

Lubbock County 3 plants

Lynn County 3 plants

Marion County 1 plant

Martin County 1 plant

Mason County 2 plants

Matagorda County 7 plants

Maverick County 5 plants

McCulloch County 2 plants

McLennan County 6 plants

Menard County 1 plant

Midland County 1 plant

Milam County 6 plants

Mills County 4 plants

Mitchell County 3 plants

Montgomery County 6 plants

Moore County 6 plants

Motley County 1 plant

Nacogdoches County 1 plant

Navarro County 6 plants

Newton County 2 plants

Nolan County 17 plants

Nueces County 17 plants

Ochiltree County 1 plant

Oldham County 5 plants

Orange County 2 plants

Palo Pinto County 2 plants

Parker County 1 plant

Parmer County 2 plants

Pecos County 31 plants

Polk County 2 plants

Potter County 2 plants

Presidio County 1 plant

Rains County 1 plant

Randall County 2 plants

Reagan County 2 plants

Real County 1 plant

Red River County 2 plants

Reeves County 15 plants

Refugio County 1 plant

Roberts County 1 plant

Robertson County 4 plants

Rockwall County 1 plant

Runnels County 1 plant

Rusk County 3 plants

San Jacinto County 1 plant

San Patricio County 10 plants

Schleicher County 1 plant

Scurry County 14 plants

Shackelford County 3 plants

Sherman County 2 plants

Somervell County 1 plant

Starr County 12 plants

Stephens County 1 plant

Sterling County 6 plants

Swisher County 2 plants

Tarrant County 25 plants

Taylor County 6 plants

Throckmorton County 2 plants

Titus County 1 plant

Tom Green County 5 plants

Travis County 17 plants

Upshur County 1 plant

Upton County 7 plants

Uvalde County 2 plants

Val Verde County 6 plants

Van Zandt County 1 plant

Victoria County 11 plants

Waller County 1 plant

Ward County 7 plants

Webb County 15 plants

Wharton County 12 plants

Wichita County 2 plants

Wilbarger County 7 plants

Williamson County 6 plants

Winkler County 1 plant

Wise County 4 plants

Yoakum County 3 plants

Young County 4 plants

Zapata County 4 plants

Questions about power plants in Texas

How many power plants are in Texas?

EIA-860M for August 2026 lists 1,074 operating power projects in Texas, with 201,233 MW of nameplate capacity including batteries.

What is the largest power plant in Texas?

W A Parish in Fort Bend County, with 4,008.4 MW of nameplate capacity. The next largest is South Texas Project, with 2,708.6 MW.

How much of Texas's capacity is wind?

44,512 MW, about 22% of nameplate capacity. 230 projects have wind as their primary fuel.

Source: EIA-860M August 2026, published 2026-09-24. Page updated 2026-10-04. Data sources