CPS Energy: Generation and Distribution by the Numbers

CPS Energy is the largest municipally owned combined electric and gas utility in the United States. Our utility serves more than 728,000 electric customers and more than 328,000 natural gas customers 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.

Power Generation  
Coal (Spruce 1 & 2 and Deely 1 & 2):  2,184 MW  
Natural Gas (AVR, Sommers, Braunig, Rio Nogales):  3,001 MW  
Nuclear (STP 1 & 2):    1,080 MW  
Peaking Units (Leon Creek, Tuttle, Braunig Peakers)     631 MW  
Capacity:     6,896 MW   
     
Renewable Generation (in Commercial Operation)    
Wind (8 projects)  1059.1 MW  
Solar (4 solar farms; 400 MW more under contract)     44.3 MW  
Landfill Gas (4 MW more under contract)       9.6 MW  
Current Capacity: 1113.0 MW  
     
Total Capacity   8009.0 MW

 

Electric Distribution and Transmission  
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
   
Natural Gas Distribution 
Gas Transmission and Mains: 5,027 miles