and coal fired plants you just throw some more coal in to light those burners up. You never have to worry about ice shutting you down from pipe lines or anything else because they would have mountains of coal just waiting.

It's pretty cool to watch them burn the coal. It comes in on conveyor belts then gets pulverized into dust and then blown through a burner. It produces some intense heat.

Just sent this picture from last night. Just got another 1,000,000 watts of power online.

Here's a picture of Monticello during it's heyday. This was taken from my subdivision on Sandlin. Ah the good old days.

I miss eagle mountain power plant, I’d see it fired up from a distance and knew the fishing would be on

And how much are the generating today? Six megawatts. Wind power has dropped from 31 megawatts to 6 megawatts due to blades icing.

Here's an article from Waco Tribune circa 2014 demolishing the plant at Tradinghouse Creek plant just east of Town.

https://wacotrib.com/business/last-...f0272a0-26ba-561e-87a3-6919599a0ad2.html



Decker Creek power station (aka Walter E Long) in Austin was closed in 2020. Austin Energy also shutdown their Holly Street power station some number of years ago.

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/whispers/decker-creek-power-station-finally-closing/

Limestone aka: LEGS. I used to work there when it was owned by Houston Industries. I worked for UFI, Utility Fuels Inc, we operated the fuel handling system. Yes, they do not come online easily. Temps, pressures all have to be equalized & balanced as well as the flame from the coal.

You are correct. Nuke doesn't burn anything.

I say again.....thorium fueled molten salt nuclear reactors! Thousands of them!

What's not to love?

Cheap, scalable, manufactured vice built, safe! Even transportable.

Unless something has changed over the years, they start up on NG Igniters and then induce the coal dust. At least that is the way ours started up. We also had problems with wet coal creating a frozen plug coming out of the hoppers. One time they bought some "cheap" lignite to burn, it had so much dirt in it that it froze into a huge chunk. We spent hours around the clock hammering on the side of the hoppers above the pulverizers to empty them out. Dang, I don't miss those cold nights up in the air.

The NG plant on Lake Granbury is sitting idle. Four burners on it.

I wonder if the weather has affected the ability to get gas to the plant.

How are you doing John?

Gibbons Creek is owned by TMPA, which was mothballed in 2019, if I remember correctly. Coleto Creek is projected to go off line in 2027.

Gibbons creek, Grimes county
Big Brown, Freestone county
JT Deely, Bexar county
Monticello, Titus county
Oklaunion, Wilbarger county
Sandow, Miliam county
Eagle Mountain, Tarrant county
Paint creek, Haskell county
PH Robinson, Galveston county

The above represents 9600+ mWh capacity permanently removed from our state power grid.

Someone with more knowledge on the subject would have to comment for impact & accuracy.
From the little I know that 9600+ mWh capacity permanently removed from our state power grid is about 3.8 - 6 million homes worth of power.


Tradinghouse Creek, E of Waco
North Lake, Coppell
Valley, Fannin county
Decker Creek/ W.E Long, Austin
Holly street, Austin

More permanatly lost electric grid capacity.
I couldn’t find lost output figures on these.

That is all I know of off the top of my head.