Buckthorn Westex is a solar power facility with 154 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Pecos County, Texas, registered as EIA Plant ID 60044. Buckthorn Westex, LLC is the registered plant entity or operator. Project filings list 1,696,500 solar panels and 58 inverters for the facility.
EIA-reported plant capacity; other capacity bases are withheld pending reconciliation.
Primary generation technology.
Buckthorn Westex, LLC · Pecos County · ERCOT
Buckthorn Westex is operating.
ERCOT settlement point.
Installed equipment documented in public project records.
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Solar Photovoltaic
Buckthorn Westex is operating.
ERCOT
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Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BKTH1 | 154 MW 154 MW summer | Solar Photovoltaic Solar · PV | May 2018 | Operating |
Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.
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Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.
Wholesale power purchase agreement executed February 24, 2015 between Buckthorn Westex, LLC and City of Georgetown; 25-year fixed-price term; terms largely confidential; commenced operations July 2018.
ERCOT · Pecos County
Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
1 ERCOT market resource · Solar
Capacity factor is average output vs. this plant's observed peak.
Observed ERCOT settlement prices at RIGGIN_UNIT1 over 363 days (2025-09-11 to 2026-09-10).
The TB2 figure is a price benchmark, not revenue: it values one perfect-foresight cycle per day between the 2 cheapest and 2 dearest hours of each day, gross of round-trip losses, and excludes ancillary services and any physical dispatch constraint. It describes what this node’s price shape was worth over the window — it is not this asset’s realized capture, and no dispatch is assumed or modelled.
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
Texas Chapter 313 application amendment lists a construction commencement date of January 1, 2017 (project timeline in official tax filing).
EIA-860 lists generator BKTH1 with this operating date.
ERCOT SCED disclosure is delayed, so plant performance windows end at the latest disclosed interval.
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Buckthorn Westex has a reported capacity of 154 MW. Source: EIA Form 860.
Buckthorn Westex is a Solar Photovoltaic facility in Pecos County, TX, participating in the ERCOT market.
Buckthorn Westex is in Pecos County, TX, inside the ERCOT balancing area.
Buckthorn Westex is operated by Buckthorn Westex, LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
Buckthorn Westex reported 315.6 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-06. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
Buckthorn Westex settles at RIGGIN_UNIT1.
By capacity, Buckthorn Westex ranks #255 of 7,234 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #93 of 231 in TX.
Plants within 25 km, nearest first, regardless of technology. Proximity is straight-line distance between mapped plant coordinates; it does not by itself establish a shared point of interconnection.
