San Jacinto Steam Electric Station is an EIA-listed natural gas fired combustion turbine facility with 160. The plant's generating configuration is 2 natural-gas-fired combustion turbines (natural gas and combustion turbine technology).
EIA-reported net summer capability; other nameplate and seasonal ratings may differ.
Primary generation technology.
NRG Texas Power LLC · Harris County · ERCOT
San Jacinto Steam Electric Station is operating.
ERCOT settlement point.
SJS_SJS_G1 · SJS_SJS_G2
Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
San Jacinto Steam Electric Station is operating.
ERCOT
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Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88.2 MW 80 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine Natural Gas · GT | Apr 1995 Retirement: Dec 2031 | Operating |
| 2 | 88.2 MW 80 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine Natural Gas · GT | Apr 1995 Retirement: Dec 2031 | Operating |
Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.
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EIA-860 lists generator 1, generator 2 with this operating date.
ERCOT SCED disclosure is delayed, so plant performance windows end at the latest disclosed interval.
ERCOT · Harris County
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 · Gas turbine
Capacity factor is average output vs. this plant's observed peak.
Observed ERCOT settlement prices at SJS_SJS_G1 over 363 days (2025-09-11 to 2026-09-10). This plant is also crosswalked to SJS_SJS_G2; 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.
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| San Jacinto Steam Electric StationCurrent | 176.4 MW | TX |
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
View full reporting portfolioEIA-860 lists a planned retirement for generator 1, generator 2.
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San Jacinto Steam Electric Station has a reported capacity of 176.4 MW. Source: EIA Form 860.
San Jacinto Steam Electric Station is a Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine facility in Harris County, TX, participating in the ERCOT market.
San Jacinto Steam Electric Station is in Harris County, TX, inside the ERCOT balancing area.
San Jacinto Steam Electric Station is operated by NRG Texas Power LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
San Jacinto Steam Electric Station reported 857.9 GWh over the twelve months to 2024-12. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
San Jacinto Steam Electric Station settles at SJS_SJS_G1.
By capacity, San Jacinto Steam Electric Station ranks #272 of 825 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #33 of 75 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.
