Coal power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 28.7128, -97.2142.
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Coleto Creek is a 600 MW coal power station in Texas, United States of America. It ranks #1115 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0006178.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000104195; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 600 MW, Coleto Creek is around the median coal plant in United States of America (558 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #378 largest coal power plant of 802 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 802 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 621,194 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 28.7128, -97.2142 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Coleto Creek is a 600 MW coal power plant in Texas, United States of America, Announced 1980.
