Power plant · Texas, United States

Barney M Davis Power Plant

Barney M Davis Power Plant is a gas power plant in Texas, United States, with 1,082 MW of capacity, owned by City of San Antonio - (TX).

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Texas	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1974	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	City of San Antonio - (TX)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	City of San Antonio - (TX)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	1,082 MW	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	AEP Texas Central Company	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	138 kV	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	27.6064, -97.3117	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Barney M Davis is the 31st-largest of 131 power plants in Texas and the 293rd-largest of 1,009 in the United States by capacity; its 1,082 MW is 0.12% of the 917,512 MW we hold for the United States. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Texas	31st of 131	111,585 MW	0.97%
United States	293rd of 1,009	917,512 MW	0.12%
All power plants in our data	344th of 13,028	1,354,089 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 2 mines (1 operating), measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Benchmark Materials LLC	Mine	—	Closed	23 km
San Pablo Sand and Gravel	Mine	—	Operating	32 km

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Data on this page

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
MSHA Mines Data Set. MSHA Mines Data Set, Public domain.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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