LCRA maintains a diverse power generation portfolio to ensure Central Texans can count on their source of electricity. These power facilities include coal- and natural gas-fired units that provide 2,333 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity for LCRA customers. With 281.5 MW of hydroelectric capacity and 116 MW of wind power purchases, LCRA also ranks as the largest public power supplier of renewable energy in Texas.

Here is a snapshot of LCRA generating facilities:

• Fayette Power Project (FPP), a three-unit coal-fired power plant near La Grange, provides 1,025 MW for LCRA. (Austin Energy co-owns two of the FPP units and the power they produce.)
• Sim Gideon Power Plant, a three-unit gas plant in Bastrop County, provides 620 MW.
• Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant, a single-unit gas-fired plant in Marble Falls, provides 420 MW.
• LCRA affiliate GenTex Power Corporation owns Lost Pines 1 Power Project, a gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Bastrop County. This plant provides 545 MW of generating capacity for Texas consumers.
• Six hydroelectric dams operated by LCRA provides 281.5 MW of renewable energy.
• LCRA purchases 116 MW from West Texas wind power facilities under long-term contracts.

Fuel and transportation operations
LCRA uses coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to fuel the Fayette Power Project. This coal is shipped on the 1,480 railcars maintained by LCRA's Smithville Rail Fleet Maintenance Facility.

The Hilbig Gas Storage Facility in Rockne, which is in Bastrop County, enables LCRA to store 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas for its gas-fired plants and Lost Pines 1.

See map of energy facilities.