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Whitney

Hydro power plant · Bosque County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
42 MW
Rank in Texas
#638
of 1,071 plants
In service since
1953
June 1953

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
USACE-Fort Worth District
County
Bosque County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among hydro plants in Texas
#8 of 23
EIA plant code
6414

Generating units

Individual generating units at Whitney
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric21 MW21 MW1953Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric21 MW21 MW1953Operating

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 42 MW solar plant and a 42 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