Eddy County Generating Station is a natural gas power plant in New Mexico.
Capacity—nameplate
Annual Generation—EPA eGRID
Capacity Factor—
Annual CO₂—metric tons
Location
Plant Name
Eddy County Generating Station
Operator
Public Service Co Of Nm
County
Eddy County
State
New Mexico
Generators (1)
ID
Technology
Fuel
Capacity
Status
Online
0001
Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
Natural Gas
44.0 MW
Cancelled
—
Grid context
NERC Region
WECC
About Natural Gas plants
Natural gas plants are the workhorse of the modern grid. Combined-cycle units achieve very high efficiency and can ramp up and down quickly to balance variable renewables. They emit roughly half the CO₂ per MWh of coal and far less of other pollutants, but they still release upstream methane during fuel extraction.