Falcon Dam & Power

International Boundary and Water Commission (U.S. Section)Starr CountyERCOT

Falcon Dam & Power is a 31.5 MW conventional hydroelectric plant with three 10.5 MW generating units in Starr County, Texas. The plant sits on the U.S. side of Falcon Dam, an earthen embankment dam on the Rio Grande that the United States and Mexico built jointly under the 1944 Water Treaty. It is owned and operated by the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, which also runs a mirror-image plant on the Mexican side of the same dam. The U.S. units have been generating since October 1954 and remain in service with no retirement scheduled. Output is marketed by the federal Western Area Power Administration rather than sold by IBWC directly, and the plant settles into ERCOT at its own Falcon Dam & Power price nodes.