V.H. Braunig is a CPS Energy natural-gas generation site in Bexar County, registered as EIA Plant ID 3612. EIA's May 2026 inventory lists four operating simple-cycle combustion turbines—generators 5 through 8—with 244 MW of nameplate capacity and 191 MW of net summer capability. CPS Energy now calls these quick-start units Milton B. Steam Units 1 and 2, totaling 447 MW net summer capability, ceased operation April 1, 2025.
Generators 5–8 · EIA May 2026
BRAUNIG_VHB3 · through Mar 1, 2027
Units 1–3 net summer capability
CPS Energy · Bexar County · ERCOT
BRAUNIG_CC1_1 · BRAUNIG_CC1_2
City Public Service Board
BRAUNIG_VHB6CT5–CT8
$2,616.80/hour standby cost
Shared cooling reservoir
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Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 225 MW 217 MW summer | Natural Gas Steam Turbine Natural Gas · ST | Mar 1966 Retirement: Mar 2025 | Operating |
| 2 | 252 MW 230 MW summer | Natural Gas Steam Turbine Natural Gas · ST | Apr 1968 Retirement: Mar 2025 | Operating |
| 3 | 417 MW 412 MW summer | Natural Gas Steam Turbine Natural Gas · ST | May 1970 Retirement: Mar 2025 | Operating |
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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 a March 1966 operating date.
| 61 MW 48 MW summer |
Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine Natural Gas · GT |
| Dec 2010 |
| Operating |
| 6 | 61 MW 48 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine Natural Gas · GT | Dec 2010 | Operating |
| 7 | 61 MW 48 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine Natural Gas · GT | Dec 2010 | Operating |
| 8 | 61 MW 47 MW summer | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine Natural Gas · GT | Dec 2010 | Operating |
Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
7 ERCOT market resources · Combined-cycle gas, Gas steam, Gas turbine
Observed ERCOT settlement prices at BRAUNIG_CC1 over 363 days (2025-09-11 to 2026-09-10). This plant is also crosswalked to BRAUNIG_VHB3, BR_VHB6CT5_6, BR_VHB6CT7_8; 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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| V H BraunigCurrent | 1,138 MW | TX | |
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| Nueces Bay | 730.2 MW | TX | |
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| Arthur Von Rosenberg | 575 MW | TX |
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
EIA reports an April 1968 operating date.
EIA reports a May 1970 operating date.
EIA reports December 2010 operating dates for generators 5 through 8.
ERCOT and CPS Energy executed a two-year 400 MW RMR agreement.
EIA-860 lists a planned retirement for generator 1, generator 2, generator 3.
ERCOT SCED disclosure is delayed, so plant performance windows end at the latest disclosed interval.
Current RMR agreement end date.
Answered from the published record above. Questions whose inputs this profile does not carry are omitted rather than estimated.
V H Braunig has a reported capacity of 244 MW. Source: EIA Form 860.
V H Braunig is a Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine; Natural Gas Steam Turbine; facility in Bexar County, TX, participating in the ERCOT market.
V H Braunig is in Bexar County, TX, inside the ERCOT balancing area.
V H Braunig is operated by City of San Antonio - (TX) according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.
V H Braunig reported 286.8 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-06. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.
V H Braunig interconnects at Braunig, on the CPS Energy system.
By capacity, V H Braunig ranks #31 of 257 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #7 of 32 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.
