PORT ARTHUR, Texas \u2014 Entergy executives broke ground on a natural-gas-fueled power plant here Thursday, raising questions about the company\u2019s plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and two members of the state Public Utility Commission joined the groundbreaking ceremony. Entergy CEO Drew Marsh said the new power plant will bolster electric reliability for customers in Southeast Texas.<\/p>\n
The Port Arthur gas plant and another gas plant planned in San Jacinto County, Texas, will \u201cprovide the modern, dispatchable generation needed to support the region\u2019s expanding population and economy,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
Once it\u2019s online, the $1.46 billion Port Arthur plant will be able to produce as much as 754 megawatts, while the $735 million plant in San Jacinto County will be built to generate as much as 453 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ARTHUR, Texas \u2014 Entergy executives broke ground on a natural-gas-fueled power plant here Thursday, raising questions about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-243485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}