How many natural gas power plants are in Texas?

Texas has 315 operating utility-scale natural gas power plants with 84 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.

What is the largest natural gas power plant in Texas?

Forney Energy Center in Kaufman County, Texas is the largest, at 1,894 MW. It came online in 2003.

How many natural gas power plants were built in Texas in 2025?

2 natural gas power plants came online in Texas in 2025, with 8 MW of capacity.

Who is developing natural gas power plants in Texas?

Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.

Natural gas power plants in Texas

Texas has 315 operating natural gas power plants with 84 GW of capacity. 2 came online in 2025.

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Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Under 250 MW250–999 MW1 GW and up

Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Texas had 146 natural gas power plants online in 2016 and 315 in 2026

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Natural gas power plants online at the end of each year. Source: EIA-860M, compiled by Cleanview.

The 10 largest natural gas power plants in Texas

Operating, by capacity

#	Natural gas power plant	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Forney Energy Center	Kaufman County	2003	1,894 MW
2	Sabine	Orange County	1979	1,812 MW
3	Midlothian Energy Facility	Ellis County	2001	1,734 MW
4	Temple Power Station	Bell County	2015	1,606 MW
5	Cedar Bayou	Chambers County	1972	1,530 MW
6	Cottonwood Energy Company LP	Newton County	2003	1,434 MW
7	Handley	Tarrant County	1977	1,315 MW
8	Jack County	Wise County	2011	1,280 MW
9	W A Parish	Fort Bend County	1968	1,272 MW
10	Wolf Hollow II	Hood County	2017	1,231 MW

Natural gas power plants that came online most recently in Texas

Newest first

#	Natural gas power plant	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Pyote Gas	Ward County	2026	10 MW
2	NRG THW GT Electric Generating Station	Harris County	2026	377 MW
3	Friendswood Energy	Harris County	2026	265 MW
4	Pin Oak Creek Energy Center, LLC	Freestone County	2026	444 MW
5	Timmerman Power Plant	Caldwell County	2026	368 MW
6	Cedarvale Gas	Ward County	2026	10 MW
7	OTHERChildrensPlano	Collin County	2025	6 MW
8	HEB_CPS00793	Bexar County	2025	1 MW
9	HEB00797	Harris County	2024	1 MW
10	HEBTEMDistCenter	Bell County	2024	6 MW

The developer behind each project is on paid plans. See plans

How Cleanview tracks natural gas power plants

Operating natural gas power plants come from the EIA's monthly survey of power plants. Planned projects come from the grid operators' interconnection queues. We research who is developing each one, since a queue lists a project company, not its owner.

Questions about natural gas power plants in Texas

How many natural gas power plants are in Texas?: Texas has 315 operating utility-scale natural gas power plants with 84 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.
What is the largest natural gas power plant in Texas?: Forney Energy Center in Kaufman County, Texas is the largest, at 1,894 MW. It came online in 2003.
How many natural gas power plants were built in Texas in 2025?: 2 natural gas power plants came online in Texas in 2025, with 8 MW of capacity.
Who is developing natural gas power plants in Texas?: Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.