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Monte Cristo 1

Wind power plant · Hidalgo County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
239 MW
Rank in Texas
#245
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2025
October 2025

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Terra-Gen Operating Co-Wind
County
Hidalgo County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.12%
Rank among wind plants in Texas
#58 of 228
EIA plant code
67875

Generating units

Individual generating units at Monte Cristo 1
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Onshore Wind Turbine239 MW239 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 239 MW solar plant and a 239 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