Just because a power plant is next to you does not mean that is where you get your electricity from. When electricity hits the grid it can go most anywhere within reason. ERCOT controls the grid so it is sent to the transmission system they want it to go to.

What type fish are you after?

I have fished Lake Palestine and Fork with ice forming on my line and catching bass left and right!
Catfish in all the lakes LOVE cold weather and are biting well right now.
Crappie are bunched up right now on deep water humps in most lakes.

Point is .... you don't need to look for a warm water lake to catch fish!

They don't flare gas just to be flaring it ... there is a reason ... usually it is a sour well and the flare is burning the gas it takes to dump water and other reasons, it is really a very small amount in comparison.

Not according to TCEQ that just issued permits to flare gas. Producers claim there is no market for the gas because the price is so low.

A major pipeline operator is suing the Texas Railroad Commission — the state agency that regulates oil and gas drilling — alleging that it has blatantly disregarded longstanding state law that restricts the controversial and growing practice of burning off natural gas.

The lawsuit, filed Nov. 20 in Travis County District Court, is the latest development in a first-of-its-kind dispute between Tulsa-based Williams Cos. and Exco Operating Co. over the Dallas-based company’s authority to flare natural gas that comes up with the oil it pumps from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. In December 2017, Exco asked the Railroad Commission for permission to burn off excess gas from dozens of oil wells and later asked for a two-year extension of that authority.

The request was unusual because the wells were already connected to a pipeline gathering system owned by Williams that's capable of transporting the fossil fuel to market. When oil and gas producers ask the Railroad Commission for permission to flare, which they have increasingly done amid a historic oil boom in the state, it is often because they are unable to hook up to a pipeline.

But in this case, Exco, which emerged from bankruptcy in July, said it was because the company didn't have a contract with Williams and couldn’t afford its rates to transport the gas even if it did. The company also noted that Williams historically had only been able to accept 70% of its gas, so it would need a permit to flare, anyway.

With oil production reaching historic levels in the Permian Basin as new pipeline construction has lagged, the price of natural gas in West Texas has traded in negative territory several times this year, prompting oil producers to flare it or pay pipeline operators with spare capacity to take it away.

In the case of oil wells flaring the gas used to push the oil out .... I look for that to stop real soon.

I spend most of my time lately in my old age working with gas wells, but I have spent time in South Texas and West Texas on oil production and I look for them to have a gas fired compressor on each location real soon and flare stacks removed. Pipeline does charge to transfer the gas, and some oil wells have gas injection to push the oil up, so they have to pay for the gas coming and going.
With a compressor, they can recirculate and the pads usually have several well on it, so one compressor can run them all.

They have permits.

i believe so

I have asked this in several different forums. DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY NEW GAS POWERED GENERATION FACILITES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT IN TEXAS WITHIN THE LAST 10 YEARS?

Luminat ownes most of the plants in North Texas. All gas fired plants have been closed. With the nuk plant in Glen Rose and the wind mills out west they have not built any gas fired plants in years.

TGaylon that is not a correct statement. Luminent has 4 gas plants still running. Graham, Hubbard, Striker and Trinidad. There is a plant called Wolf Hollow that is around Granbury somewhere but not on Lake Granbury. Garland Power & Light did have a gas fired plant on Lavon but I don't know for sure it still runs.
I almost forgot Handley Plant on Lake Arlington and Mountain Creek Plant on Mountain Creek Lake

These plants were put into operations in the last 10 years to replace the coal fired plants that were shut down or are going to be shut down?

Those plants are all 0ver 40 years old and everyone was in operation before any of the lignite plants were built.

So we close down power plants without having replacements for them. Genius.