Entergy Texas also holds minority ownership of the Big Cajun coal plant and the Nelson coal plant in Louisiana. They include the 933-MW gas-fired CCGT at Montgomery County Power Station in Willis the 503-MW gas-fired Lewis Creek plant in Willis the 151-MW gas-fired Hardin County plant in Kountze and the 1.5-GW gas-fired Sabine plant in Orange County. In Texas, all its existing plants are gas-fired. The new project could also introduce a new fuel to its fleet. When completed, the Orange County project will dramatically ramp up Entergy Texas’s owned generation capacity, which currently stands at about 3 GW. Courtesy: Entergy A Large-Scale Distributed Generation Model The plant will be located near Bridge City, Texas. “This benefit is consistent with the nationwide movement toward a low-carbon economy and recognizes the investment communities and customers’ evolving demand for sustainability projects.” Entergy’s proposed Orange County Advanced Power Station is a 1,215-MW dual-fuel combined cycle power facility that will be fired with hydrogen and natural gas.
“ Investing in hydrogen capabilities now will allow Orange County Advanced Power Station to use two fuels and more economically convert to 100% hydrogen in the future, as changing circumstances warrant,” it added. By adding hydrogen capability to the plant during construction, the company is effectively boosting the project’s flexibility to operate “well into the future-regardless of market or environmental changes,” the company said. 3 that the project should be capable of utilizing up to 30% of its fuel from hydrogen upon commercial operation. While the company said it will provide more details on specifics of the facility when it files its application with state regulators-including the gas turbine models it will utilize-it told POWER on Aug. If approved, Entergy Texas will begin construction of the pioneering project in the second quarter of 2023 and plans to put it in service by summer 2026.
subsidiary on July 29 announced it intends to file a Certificate for Convenience and Necessity with the Public Utility Commission of Texas “within the coming months” to build the Orange County Advanced Power Station. Entergy Texas will seek approval for a 1.2-GW hydrogen and natural gas–fired combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power facility in Orange County, Texas.
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