Capricorn Ridge Wind
NextEra Energy ResourcesSterling County
Capricorn Ridge is a 662.5 MW wind complex in Coke and Sterling counties, Texas. EIA's May 2026 inventory groups four operating generator records under Plant ID 56763, with service dates from November 2007 through May 2008. GE reported in 2012 that the full complex used 342 GE 1.5 MW turbines and 65 Siemens 2.3 MW turbines. A current NextEra fact sheet describes a narrower 364 MW scope with 143 GE and 65 Siemens turbines, so the page keeps those source scopes distinct rather than treating them as conflicting plant totals.
EIA May 2026
EIA May 2026
GE February 2012
NextEra current fact sheet
EIA plant 56763 · Inventory for Sep 2026.
| Generator | Technology | Status | Power (MW) | Energy (MWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | Operating | 149.5 | Unknown |
| 2 | Onshore Wind Turbine | Operating | 214.5 | Unknown |
| 3 | Onshore Wind Turbine | Operating | 186 | Unknown |
| 4 | Onshore Wind Turbine | Operating | 112.5 | Unknown |
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Current generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 149.5 MW 149.5 MW summer | Onshore Wind Turbine WT | Nov 2007 | Operating |
| 2 | 214.5 MW 214.5 MW summer | Onshore Wind Turbine WT | Nov 2007 | Operating |
| 3 | 186 MW 186 MW summer | Onshore Wind Turbine WT | Apr 2008 | Operating |
| 4 | 112.5 MW 112.5 MW summer | Onshore Wind Turbine WT | May 2008 | Operating |
Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.
Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.
Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.
Parties, market resources, and identifiers tied to this asset, with owner, operator, developer, EPC, compliance provider, and interconnecting entity roles kept separate.
Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.
EIA reports November 2007 for the 214.5 MW and 149.5 MW records; NextEra also identifies November 2007 as the operating start.
NextEra and GE
Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
3 ERCOT market resources · Wind
Capacity factor is average output vs. this plant's observed peak.
Observed ERCOT settlement prices at CAPRIDGE_ALL over 365 days (2025-10-26 to 2026-10-25).
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.
EIA reports April 2008 for the 186 MW record.
EIA reports May 2008 for the 112.5 MW record.
GE Energy Financial Services and J.P. Morgan invested in a partnership owning Capricorn Ridge; NextEra remained majority owner and operator.
ERCOT SCED disclosure is delayed, so plant performance windows end at the latest disclosed interval.
Answered from the published record above. Questions whose inputs this profile does not carry are omitted rather than estimated.
Capricorn Ridge Wind reports 662.5 MW wind of operating nameplate capacity. These technology ratings do not establish a common export limit. Source: EIA Sep 2026.
Capricorn Ridge Wind is a Onshore Wind Turbine facility in Sterling County, TX, participating in the ERCOT market.
Capricorn Ridge Wind is in Sterling County, TX, inside the ERCOT balancing area.
Capricorn Ridge Wind is operated by Capricorn Ridge Wind LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
Capricorn Ridge Wind reported 2,059.8 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-07. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
Capricorn Ridge Wind settles at CAPRIDGE_ALL.
By capacity, Capricorn Ridge Wind ranks #6 of 1,374 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #3 of 230 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.
