wind power plantERCOT · Briscoe Countyplant:plant-58772

Longhorn Wind

Briscoe County · ERCOT

Longhorn Wind is a wind power facility with 200 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Floyd and Briscoe Counties, Texas, registered as EIA Plant ID 58772.

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Overview

Key fields

Reported capacity: 200 MW
EIA-reported operating capacity; nameplate, seasonal, AC/DC, and unit ratings may differ.
Technology: Onshore Wind Turbine
Primary generation technology.
Registry anchor: Plant 58772
Briscoe County · ERCOT
Operating status: Operating
Longhorn Wind is operating.
Resource stack: 2 resources
LHORN_N_UNIT1 · LHORN_N_UNIT2

Profile

Grid role: Utility-scale wind generation in ERCOT's energy-only market.

Structured profile

Reported capacity: 200 MW
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operating status: operating
Longhorn Wind is operating.
Asset role: wind
ERCOT · Briscoe County
Owner: Boralex (50% interest)
Together these support Boralex as a public owner (50% interest).

Units and generators

Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.

Generator	Capacity	Technology	Operation	Status
GEN1	200 MW 200 MW summer	Onshore Wind Turbine Wind · WT	May 2015	Operating

Performance

Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.

Peer context

Technology capacity: 200 MW
National rank: #276
TX rank: #93

Monthly generation

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Latest 12 months

685.2 GWh

Reported net generation

Latest report

Apr 2026

EIA-923 monthly filing

2025 capacity factor

39.8%

Using current reported nameplate capacity

Monthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.

ERCOT disclosed dispatch

2 ERCOT market resources · Wind

Generation

3 mo through May 22, 2026

Avg output

92 MW

Peak output

195 MW

Capacity factor

47%

Uptime

82%

Curtailed

17.4%

Capacity factor is average output vs. this plant's observed peak.

Output by hourlocal time · 90 days through May 22, 2026

0:006:0012:0018:0024:00

Latest disclosed outputhourly · 2 weeks ending May 22, 2026

Longhorn Wind output67MW

Generation from ERCOT's 60-Day SCED Disclosure (≈60-day lag), summed over this site's market resources.

Grid and market context

Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.

Market registration

ERCOT public disclosures

Settlement point

LHORN_N_U1_2

high confidence spatial and capacity match

Market resources

2 resources

LHORN_N_UNIT1·LHORN_N_UNIT2

Registered capability

198.2 MW

WIND

ERCOT unit mapping:LHORN_N_U1_2LHORN_N

Operating context

ERCOT market records

365-day nodal price

$23.73 average

$21.17 median · $70.47 95th percentile · 21.4% negative intervals

5-year unplanned outages

80 events

35,163 MW-hours of reported reduction across 71 completed events · 8.6h median duration · 100 MW largest reduction · 9 open-ended records

Nearby substations

HIFLD infrastructure inventory

LONGHORN WIND

IN SERVICE · 345 kV

1.1 km

UNKNOWN306441

NOT AVAILABLE · 69 kV

7.7 km

TAP302596

IN SERVICE

10.3 km

UNKNOWN302986

IN SERVICE

10.6 km

TAP310922

NOT AVAILABLE

10.6 km

Commercial, land, and environmental record

Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.

Land and environmental record

Legal Description Parcels

May 28, 2013

Legal descriptions and acreage for Silverton ISD portion (Briscoe County portion) of Longhorn Wind Project as submitted in Chapter 313 tax incentive application. Examples include: Section 13, Block B-2: 117 acres; N/2 of Section 1, Block B-2: 120 acres; Section 30, Block A: 160 acres; E/2 SW/4 of Section 28, Block A: 80 acres; Section 29, Block A: 640 acres; SW/4 of Section 30, Block A: 157 acres; SE/4 of Section 30, Block A: 160 acres; and additional sections listed in Attachment 10.

Legal descriptions and per-parcel acreage listed for qualified property within Silverton ISD (Briscoe County portion) as submitted in Longhorn Wind Project, LLC Chapter 313 application to Silverton ISD (Attachment 10: Legal Description of Land / Acreage). Filed May 28, 2013 with Texas Comptroller.

Source

Reinvestment Zone Creation

Jul 8, 2013

Briscoe County Commissioners Court expected to create proposed 'Longhorn' reinvestment zone on July 8, 2013 to cover project area in Briscoe and Floyd counties.

Chapter 313 application materials indicate Briscoe County Commissioners Court was expected to create reinvestment zone on July 8, 2013. Reinvestment zone was referenced in maps/legal descriptions and as part of qualified-property planning for the tax incentive application.

Source

Tax Incentive Chapter 313 Application

May 28, 2013

Chapter 313 (Texas Tax Code) application filed May 28, 2013 by Longhorn Wind Project, LLC to Silverton ISD for appraised-value limitation on qualified property. Comptroller application packet includes application, supporting maps/legal descriptions, and Board Findings and Agreement attachments.

Longhorn Wind Project, LLC submitted Chapter 313 appraised-value limitation application to Silverton ISD on May 28, 2013. Texas Comptroller file contains application, attachment maps listing qualified property parcels with legal descriptions, and Board's Findings and Agreement language.

Source

Related parties and identifiers

Parties, market resources, and identifiers tied to this asset, with owner, operator, developer, EPC, compliance provider, and interconnecting entity roles kept separate.

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Parties and identifiers

Relationship	Entity	Basis
Market resources	LHORN_N_UNIT1, LHORN_N_UNIT2	Linked ERCOT resources.
Grid selection	plant:plant-58772	Canonical asset page /ercot/assets/plant/longhorn-wind.

Reporting portfolio

EIA reporting entity

Boralex US Operations LLC

Entity 66100

Operating portfolio

13 plants

5 states

Reported capacity

1,103.2 MW

Onshore Wind Turbine · Solar Photovoltaic

Largest reported plants	Capacity	State
Roosevelt County	250 MW	NM
TX Hereford Wind	200 MW	TX
Longhorn WindCurrent	200 MW	TX
Spinning Spur Wind III	194 MW	TX
LaFayette Solar Farm	79.2 MW	AL
Five Points Solar Park	60 MW	CA
Milo Wind Project LLC	50 MW	NM
Kettleman Solar -Centaurus	20 MW	CA

Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.

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Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

2014
2014
Development / construction (contracting announced)RES America...
RES Americas was named to construct the 200 MW Longhorn North/Longhorn project during EDF Renewables’ development phase ahead of 2015 completion.
May 2015
May 2015
Generator enters operationEIA-860
EIA-860 lists generator GEN1 with this operating date.
Jun 3, 2015
Jun 3, 2015
Commercial OperationLonghorn Wi...
Project declared operational in mid‑2015 with 100 Vestas V‑100 (2 MW) turbine generators, total installed capacity 200 MW.
May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026
Latest disclosed generation interval
ERCOT SCED disclosure is delayed, so plant performance windows end at the latest disclosed interval.