The first 800MW coal-fired unit of the power plant started operations in December last year. Combined, Oak Grove units 1 and 2 are capable of powering nearly 850,000 average Texas homes.
Mike Williams, chief fossil officer of Luminant, said: “This significant milestone means the new unit is now fully operational, making additional baseload generation available for our state at an ideal time – as we head into our peak summer season.”
Luminant claims that both the units have lower emission rates than any existing lignite plant in the state and at least 70% lower than the national coal plant average.
The Oak Grove unit 2 is moving into the final on-line testing phase, which when completed, will make the unit fully available for reliability dispatch by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Luminant said.
