Colorado Bend Energy Center
CER Colorado Bend Energy Partners LPWharton County
Colorado Bend Energy Center is an eight-generator natural-gas facility in Wharton County, Texas. EIA's May 2026 inventory reports 654.1 MW nameplate and 608 MW net summer and winter capability. Four combined-cycle combustion-turbine records entered service in May 2002, steam turbines followed in May 2007 and June 2008, and two simple-cycle combustion turbines entered service in May 2023. TotalEnergies announced in November 2023 that Colorado Bend I, described as 530 MW combined cycle plus 74 MW open cycle, was included in a $635 million three-plant Texas portfolio acquisition from TexGen; the consideration was not allocated by plant.
Mapped infrastructure geometry associated with this asset.
EIA May 2026
EIA inventory for Sep 2026
EIA May 2026
EIA May 2026
EIA plant 56350 · Inventory for Sep 2026.
| Generator | Technology | Status | Power (MW) | Energy (MWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CT1A | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 90 | Unknown |
| CT1B | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 90 | Unknown |
| CT2A | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 90 | Unknown |
| CT2B | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 90 |
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Current generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CT1A | 90 MW 85 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle CT | May 2002 | Operating |
| CT1B | 90 MW 85 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle CT | May 2002 | Operating |
| CT2A | 90 MW 85 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle CT | May 2002 | Operating |
| CT2B | 90 MW 85 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle CT | May 2002 | Operating |
| CT4A | 37 MW | |||
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 reports May 2002 for CT1A, CT1B, CT2A, and CT2B.
Three plants · 1.5 GW · not allocated by plant
| Unknown |
| CT4A | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | Operating | 37 | Unknown |
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| CT4B | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | Operating | 37 | Unknown |
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| ST1 | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 105.1 | Unknown |
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| ST2 | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | Operating | 115 | Unknown |
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Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
6 ERCOT market resources · Combined-cycle gas, Gas turbine
Capacity factor is average output vs. this plant's observed peak.
Observed ERCOT settlement prices at CBEC_ALL over 365 days (2025-10-26 to 2026-10-25). This plant is also crosswalked to CBEC_CC1, CBEC_CC2; the point with the deepest price history is shown.
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.
Matched to the latest available ERCOT generation-interconnection queue record. Queue status and completion dates describe the queue record; operating status is verified separately against plant and market registrations.
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
EIA reports May 2007 for ST1.
EIA reports June 2008 for ST2.
EIA reports May 2023 for CT4A and CT4B.
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.
Colorado Bend Energy Center reports 654.1 MW natural gas of operating nameplate capacity. These technology ratings do not establish a common export limit. Source: EIA Sep 2026.
Colorado Bend Energy Center is a Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle; Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine; facility in Wharton County, TX, participating in the ERCOT market.
Colorado Bend Energy Center is in Wharton County, TX, inside the ERCOT balancing area.
Colorado Bend Energy Center is operated by CER Colorado Bend Energy Partners LP according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
Colorado Bend Energy Center reports a commercial operation date of 2002. Current status: operating. Source: EIA Sep 2026.
Colorado Bend Energy Center reported 1,925.6 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-07. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
By capacity, Colorado Bend Energy Center ranks #265 of 540 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #39 of 68 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.