El Paso Electric (EPE)
El Paso Electric (EPE) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 30 power plants with 2.8 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 1.6 GW. Its peak load is 1,926 MW.
At a glance
- Peak load: 1,926 MW
Capacity by fuel
30 power plants with 2.8 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 1.6 GW from 7 plants (58%)
- Solar: 981 MW from 21 plants (35%)
- Battery storage: 130 MW from 1 plant (5%)
- Wind: 50 MW from 1 plant (2%)
Largest plants
- Newman: Natural gas, 906 MW, Texas
- Montana Power Station: Natural gas, 352 MW, Texas
- Rio Grande: Natural gas, 265 MW, New Mexico
- Milagro Solar I: Solar, 225 MW, New Mexico
- Buena Vista Energy Center: Solar, 170 MW, New Mexico
- Felina: Solar, 150 MW, Texas
- Santa Teresa Solar: Solar, 150 MW, New Mexico
- Carne Energy Storage, LLC: Battery storage, 130 MW, New Mexico
- Solar PV Development NM 18 II LLC: Solar, 130 MW, New Mexico
- Copper: Natural gas, 63 MW, Texas
Planned and under construction
3 generators planned, under construction or testing, 850 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 700 MW
- Battery storage: 150 MW
States and provinces
- New Mexico: 19 plants
- Texas: 11 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain