Brazos Valley Generating Facility

675.6 MW

Address

3440 Lockwood Rd.
Thompsons, TX
77481
United States of America

Latitude: 29.472304

Longitude: -95.62301

http://www.calpine.com/power/plant.asp?plant=204

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Distance (miles)	0	2.5	5	10	25
American Indian	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.9%
Asian	10.4%	10.4%	9.0%	31.3%	16.1%
Black	22.3%	22.3%	19.6%	18.2%	23.6%
Hispanic	15.9%	15.9%	17.3%	14.2%	31.0%
White	46.5%	46.5%	49.0%	32.4%	26.4%
	26.4%
Population	1,756	1,756	2,737	186k	2,001k
Income	$135k				$100k

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CORPORATION

Name	Relation	Ownership
Calpine Corporation	Owner	100%

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Calpine buys Brazos Valley plant 2/18/2004 "Brazos Valley, a 570-megawatt, natural gas-fired plant, is owned by a consortium of banks that had provided construction financing for the project. It entered commercial operations in July 2003."
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