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Corpus Refinery

Natural gas power plant · Nueces County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
75 MW
Rank in Texas
#587
of 1,071 plants
In service since
1988
May 1988

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
Operator
Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi LLC
County
Nueces County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.04%
Rank among natural gas plants in Texas
#145 of 310
EIA plant code
50026

Generating units

Individual generating units at Corpus Refinery
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
FR6Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine47 MW32 MW1988Operating
SOLARSolar Photovoltaic28 MW28 MW2025Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 75 MW solar plant and a 75 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Texas power plants · What Texas actually generates