How big is Baytown Energy Center?

Baytown Energy Center has a reported capacity of 932.9 MW. Source: EIA Form 860.

What kind of plant is Baytown Energy Center?

Baytown Energy Center is a Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle facility in Chambers County, TX, participating in the ERCOT market.

Where is Baytown Energy Center located?

Baytown Energy Center is in Chambers County, TX, inside the ERCOT balancing area.

Who operates Baytown Energy Center?

Baytown Energy Center is operated by Baytown Energy Center LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.

How much electricity does Baytown Energy Center generate?

Baytown Energy Center reported 4,231.5 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-06. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.

How does Baytown Energy Center compare to other plants?

By capacity, Baytown Energy Center ranks #107 of 538 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #18 of 69 in TX.

Baytown Energy Center — 933 MW gas plant, TX

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Overview

Net summer capacity: 852 MW
EIA May 2026 · four generators
Nameplate capacity: 932.9 MW
3 combustion turbines · 1 steam turbine
Net winter capacity: 819 MW
EIA May 2026
2025 generation: 3.73 TWh
EIA 923 · May 2025-April 2026 window
Registry anchor: Plant 55327
Baytown Energy Center LLC · ERCOT
Resource stack: 3 resources
BTE_CC1_3 · BTE_CC1_4

Infrastructure record

Operator: Baytown Energy Center LLC

Profile

Grid role: Combined-cycle cogeneration supplying electricity to ERCOT and steam to adjacent industrial operations.
Operating configuration: Three 219.3 MW combustion turbines and one 275 MW steam turbine; 932.9 MW total nameplate.
Market mapping: ERCOT publishes BTE_CC1 as the settlement point associated with the facility.
Environmental record: TCEQ RN100226067; Federal Operating Permit O2133; New Source Review permits 41996, PSD-TX-953, and N-020.
Proposed carbon capture

Structured profile

Owner / operator: Baytown Energy Center LLC
Calpine operating company
Operating units: 4
All report June 2002 operating months
Plant type: Combined-cycle CHP
Electricity and industrial steam
TCEQ entity: RN100226067
Federal Operating Permit O2133

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Units and generators

Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.

Generator	Capacity	Technology	Operation	Status
CTG1	219.3 MW 198 MW summer	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle Natural Gas · CT	Jun 2002	Operating
CTG2	219.3 MW 198 MW summer	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle Natural Gas · CT	Jun 2002	Operating
CTG3	219.3 MW 198 MW summer	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle Natural Gas · CT	Jun 2002	Operating
STG1	275 MW 258 MW summer

Performance

Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.

Peer context

Technology capacity: 932.9 MW
National rank: #107
TX rank: #18

Monthly generation

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Latest 12 months

4.23 TWh

Reported net generation

Latest report

Jun 2026

EIA-923 monthly filing

2025 capacity factor

45.8%

Using current reported nameplate capacity

Grid and market context

Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.

Market registration

ERCOT public disclosures

Settlement point

BTE_CC1

high confidence spatial and capacity match

Market resources

3 resources

Commercial, land, and environmental record

Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.

Transactions and agreements

Federal Cost-Share Award

Jul 2024

DOE awarded $12.5 million for a $25 million Phase 1. Potential federal cost share of up to $270 million across all phases remains subject to future award negotiations.

$12.5MU.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations · Calpine Texas CCUS Holdings

DOE Baytown CCS Phase 1 fact sheet

Land and environmental record

Coordinate Parcel Id

2025

21504

TxGIO parcel intersecting the mapped EIA plant coordinate; parcel 21504; CHAMBERS APPRAISAL DISTRICT; tax year 2025

TxGIO land parcel 21504

Coordinate Parcel Owner

2025

COVESTRO LLC

TxGIO parcel intersecting the mapped EIA plant coordinate; parcel 21504; CHAMBERS APPRAISAL DISTRICT; tax year 2025

TxGIO land parcel 21504

Federal Operating Permit

May 31, 2024

O2133

TCEQ renewed Federal Operating Permit O2133 for Baytown Energy Center.

Baytown Energy Center O2133 permit record

Site Area

Jul 2024

24-acre campus

DOE Baytown CCS fact sheet reports the Baytown Energy Center site as a 24-acre campus housing three combustion turbines with three heat recovery steam generators producing 810 MW base load power.

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Related parties and identifiers

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Timeline and sources

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Project timeline

Jun 2002
Jun 2002
Generators enter operationEIA-860
EIA-860 lists generator CTG1, generator CTG2, generator CTG3, generator STG1 with this operating date.
Jun 5, 2002
Jun 5, 2002
Commercial Operation (Combined‑Cycle)

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Transactions and agreements

Land and environmental record

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Generation

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Latest disclosed outputhourly · 2 weeks ending Jul 13, 2026

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