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Tortolas

Battery storage power plant · Brazoria County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
50 MW
Rank in Texas
#630
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2024
December 2024

Details

Primary fuel
Battery storage
Technology
Batteries
Operator
Engie North America
County
Brazoria County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among battery storage plants in Texas
#89 of 211
EIA plant code
65493

Generating units

Individual generating units at Tortolas
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
TORTOBatteries50 MW50 MW2024Operating

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 50 MW solar plant and a 50 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