WA Parish Generating Station
The W.A. Parish Generating Station is a 3.65-gigawatt, dual-fired power plant located near Thompsons, Texas. The station occupies a 4,664-acre site near Smithers Lake southwest of Houston in Fort Bend County and consists of two four-unit plants; one natural gas and the other coal.Photo: RM VM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: coal and natural gas fired power plant in Fort Bend County, Texas
- Also known as: “W. A. Parish Electric Generating Station” and “W. A. Parish Power Plant”
- Address: 2500 Y U Jones Road, Thompsons, TX 77481
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thompsons and Booth.
Thompsons
Village
Photo: Djmaschek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thompsons is a town in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 156 at the 2020 census. Thompsons is situated 3 miles northeast of WA Parish Generating Station.
Booth
Hamlet
Photo: Djmaschek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Booth is a small unincorporated community in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 60 in 1990. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Booth is situated 4 miles north of WA Parish Generating Station.
WA Parish Generating Station
- Categories: gas turbine power station, coal-fired power station, natural gas-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Fort Bend, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.47774° or 29° 28′ 40″ northLongitude
-95.63258° or 95° 37′ 57″ westInception
June 1958Operator
NRG EnergyOpen location code
76X6F9H8+3XOpenStreetMap ID
way 43706421OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q12010297
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Bokmål—“WA Parish Generating Station” goes by many names.
- German: “Kraftwerk W. A. Parish”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “W. A. Parish kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “W. A. Parish kraftverk”
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