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CPS Energy: Generation and Distribution by the Numbers
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CPS Energy is the largest municipally owned combined electric and gas utility in the United States. Our utility serves more than 717,000 electric customers and more than 325,000 natural gas customers (Feb. 1, 2011) in and around the seventh-largest city in the nation. We are the fourth largest electric generator in ERCOT and the largest municipal purchaser of wind energy in the United States. Our 1,566-square-mile service area includes Bexar County and portions of Atascosa, Bandera, Comal, Guadalupe, Medina, Wilson and Kendall Counties.
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| Power Generation |
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| Coal (Spruce 1 & 2 and Deely 1 & 2): |
2,181 MW |
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| Natural Gas (AVR, Sommers, Braunig): |
2,246 MW |
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| Nuclear (STP 1 & 2): |
1,080 MW |
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| Peaking Units (Leon Creek, Tuttle, Braunig Peakers) |
631 MW |
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| Capacity: |
6,138 MW |
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| Renewable Generation |
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| Wind (5 wind farms) |
859.0 MW |
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| Solar (Blue Wing - Dec. 2010) |
14.0 MW |
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| Landfill Gas |
9.6 MW |
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| Current Capacity: |
868.6 MW |
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| Total Capacity |
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7006.6 MW |
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| Electric Distribution and Transmission |
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| Overhead Lines: |
7,574 miles |
| Underground Lines: |
4,258 miles |
| Transmission Lines: |
1,459 miles |
| Distribution Poles: |
408,349 |
| Transmission Towers: |
6,653 |
| Substations: |
118 |
| Transformers: |
206,745 |
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| Natural Gas Distribution |
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| Gas Transmission and Mains: |
5,027 miles |
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| Actual Generation |
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| Nuclear |
34.6 % |
| Coal |
34.4 % |
| Gas/Oil |
15.0 % |
| Other |
16.0 % |
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