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WattBridge’s sixth Texas gas plant goes online

The 384-MW facility – powered by eight 48-MW PROENERGY aeroderivative gas-turbine packages – is the sixth facility in four years for WattBridge.

WattBridge’s sixth Texas gas plant goes online
Remy Jade Generating Station in Harris County is a 384-MW dispatchable power facility. It is the sixth facility in just four years for WattBridge (Credit: WattBridge)

Independent power producer WattBridge Energy announced commissioning of the Remy Jade Generating Station in Harris County.

The 384 MW facility – powered by eight 48-MW PROENERGY aeroderivative gas-turbine packages – is WattBridge’s sixth facility in four years.

The independent power producer has quickly grown its footprint in Texas. The first WattBridge facility, HO Clarke Generating Station in Houston, came online just weeks ahead of Winter Storm Uri in 2021. WattBridge now operates a 2,304-MW portfolio of dispatchable power generation resources within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid.

“The WattBridge platform answers the call for new power generation in Texas like no one else,” says WattBridge President, Mike Alvarado. “Since 2020, we have commissioned six generating facilities with 48 turbines and created the largest LM6000 fleet in the world. Now we’re ready to build more capacity for Texans.”

WattBridge submitted four projects totaling more than 1,600 MW to the Texas Energy Fund (TEF), which will expand the platform to nearly 5,000 MW in the state. The new facilities, like all WattBridge plants, will be delivered as turnkey PowerFLX solutions by PROENERGY.

The plants are expected to help deliver power during peak-demand times, including severe heat waves and winter weather. Reliability of Texas’ power grid has been an issue since a 2021 February storm, which led to more than 200 deaths amid widespread blackouts.

“Dispatchable generation isn’t just a part of the energy transition, it is the energy transition,” says Jeff Canon, PROENERGY CEO. “A clean energy future requires a practical and repeatable model with proven technology that supports renewable development in every power market in the world.”