SWEENY COGEN FACILITY

How SWEENY COGEN FACILITY compares

With 572 MW of capacity, SWEENY COGEN FACILITY ranks 66th among the 307 operating power plants Bywatts maps in Texas and 51st of the 134 operating Natural Gas plants in the state. It accounts for about 0.9% of Texas's operating Natural Gas capacity and 0.5% of all operating capacity in the state. Nationally it is the 280th-largest of the 1,185 operating Natural Gas plants in the database. Commissioned in 1997, it is older than 58% of the 303 operating Texas plants with a recorded commissioning year. It shares Brazoria County with 7 other operating plants, including DOW CHEMICAL TEXAS OPERATION and OYSTER CREEK UNIT VIII.

EIA-860 lists 4 generators at the site with 572 MW of nameplate capacity, all natural gas fired combustion turbine technology. Net generation was 2,946 GWh in 2024 (a 59% capacity factor), up 1% from 2022. Its generators came online between 1997 and 2000.

Grid neighborhood

The closest transmission line found within 10 miles is a 138 kV line owned by TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO., under 0.1 miles away. Another 5 operating power plants totaling 1,713 MW sit within 25 miles; the largest is DOW CHEMICAL TEXAS OPERATION (678 MW, Natural Gas). Within 50 miles is one mapped data center, Databank Houston Galleria (HOU5) in Houston, about 48.8 miles away.

Computed by Bywatts from HIFLD power plant and transmission line records, EIA-860/923 survey data and PeeringDB data center locations; distances are straight-line. Sources and methodology