On Thursday, The Lower Colorado River Authority warned Highland Lake boaters and visitors should continue to be cautious when ...

The new plant will be the second peaker plant in LCRA’s generation fleet. LCRA also owns and operates Winchester Power Park, a 184-MW natural-gas fired peaker plant in Fayette County.

Two years later, LCRA purchased the remaining half of the facility, becoming its sole owner. Mind meld A single plant staff was formed in February 2006 by merging the employees of both plants.

The new plant will be the second peaker plant in LCRA’s generation fleet. LCRA also owns and operates Winchester Power Park, a 184-MW natural-gas fired peaker plant in Fayette County.

The new plant is being built on a 51-acre site in the Maxwell area. The new unit will be built on the same site, the LCRA said.

MAXWELL, Texas (KXAN) —On Friday, the Lower Colorado River Authority announced it was building a peaker power plant in Caldwell County set to be operational by 2025. According to a release from ...

Those scrubbers went online in 2011, and according to a June 15 press release from the LCRA – the plant's primary owner and operator – they "now remove more than 95% of SO2." ...

LCRA said the new plant will be able to ramp up and shut down in minutes. The new plant will include 10 high-efficiency Wärtsilä reciprocating engines. Each engine can provide about 19 megawatts ...

To avoid that process, the LCRA agreed to add scrubbers by 2012. A third unit, owned solely by the LCRA and operational since 1988, already had a scrubber on it. That one is being upgraded.

Economy LCRA picks Caldwell County for new peaker plant The new plant will be built on a 51-acre site in the Maxwell area and provide about 190 megawatts of dispatchable power.

Fayette, like most coal plants, is not excessively clean – in 2010, several environmental groups sued LCRA for tens of thousands of Clean Air Act violations, and in 2012 LCRA was sued ...