NTEC 8 Rivers power station — United States of America

NTEC 8 Rivers power station is a 1,000 MW coal power station in New Mexico, United States of America. It ranks #609 of 10,884 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 GEM_coa_ntec8rivers_unite.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 1,000 MW, NTEC 8 Rivers power station is well above the median coal plant in United States of America (558 MW). Technically it is described as supercritical/CCS. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #249 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.

Nearby power plants

• NTEC Gas power plant · Gas · 974.4 MW · New Mexico
• Four Corners Steam Plant · Coal · 2,269.8 MW · New Mexico
• Four Corners · Coal · 1,636.2 MW · New Mexico
• Bluffview · Gas · 67 MW · New Mexico
• Animas · Gas · 18.8 MW · New Mexico
• Desert Rock · Coal · 1,500 MW · New Mexico

Location

Coordinates 36.473972, -108.335518 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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