Castle Gap Solar
Vistra CorpUpton County
Castle Gap Solar Hybrid is a hybrid solar and battery storage facility with 189.9 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Upton County, Texas, registered as EIA Plant ID 60123. Upton County Solar 2 LLC is the registered plant entity or operator. Project filings list 485,000 solar panels and 90 inverters for the facility.
Mapped infrastructure geometry associated with this asset.
Batteries; Solar Photovoltaic.
Castle Gap Solar Hybrid is operating.
ERCOT
ERCOT · Upton County
EIA plant 60123 · Inventory for Sep 2026.
| Generator | Technology | Status | Power (MW) | Energy (MWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAT1 | Batteries | Operating | 9.9 | 42 |
| CGAP | Solar Photovoltaic | Operating | 180 | Unknown |
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Current generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAT1 | 9.9 MW 9.9 MW summer | Batteries BA | Jun 2019 | Operating |
| CGAP | 180 MW 180 MW summer | Solar Photovoltaic PV | May 2018 | 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.
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Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.
EIA-860 lists generator CGAP with this operating date.
Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
2 ERCOT market resources · Battery / storage, Solar
Cycles/day is discharged energy vs. usable capacity (~13 MWh). Capacity factor is avg discharge vs. peak.
Observed ERCOT settlement prices at CASL_GAP_UN1 over 365 days (2025-10-27 to 2026-10-26).
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-860 lists generator BAT1 with this operating date.
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.
Castle Gap Solar reports 9.9 MW battery storage + 180 MW solar of operating nameplate capacity. These technology ratings do not establish a common export limit. Source: EIA Sep 2026.
Castle Gap Solar is a Batteries; Solar Photovoltaic; facility in Upton County, TX, participating in the ERCOT market.
Castle Gap Solar is in Upton County, TX, inside the ERCOT balancing area.
Castle Gap Solar is operated by Upton County Solar 2 LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
Castle Gap Solar reported 349.1 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-07. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
By capacity, Castle Gap Solar ranks #231 of 7,597 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #90 of 242 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.
