Time-to-power, measured: every operating BTM site, permit to first megawatt
The industry says "months, not years." The permit record says something more interesting.
Who's actually online, how fast they got there, and what their power really costs. We track the difference between announcements and megawatts.
A third-party inventory of proposed behind-the-meter gas plants—not BTW-verified operating capacity. We publish it as a comparison layer so the gap is inspectable rather than rhetorical.
Reported means a source lists a project and capacity. It does not mean financed, permitted, built, or operating.
Capacity bases differ by disclosure, and 4 projects have no published capacity. The total must not be added to the verified fleet.
Open EIP source inventory ↗| Project | State | Status | Expected | Technology | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fermi America Project Matador | TX | Proposed | Q2 2027 | Combined Cycle | 11,280 |
| Portsmouth Powered Land Project | OH | Proposed | Unknown | Unknown | 9,200 |
| Stratos Project/Wonder Valley | UT | Proposed | 2036 | Unknown | 9,000 |
| Monarch Compute Campus Power Plant | WV | Proposed | 2031 | Internal Combustion Engine; Unknown | 8,160 |
| GW Ranch Energy Center | TX | Proposed | Q2 2027 | Simple Cycle | 7,650 |
| Nexus Data Center Hubbard Power Plant | TX | Proposed | 2027 | Internal Combustion Engine, Simple Cycle, Combined Cycle | 7,227 |
| Texas Power Generation Hub (Nextera-Comstock Power Station) | TX | Proposed | 2028/2029/2031/2032 | Combined Cycle, Simple Cycle | 5,200 |
| Chevron AI Data Center Project | TX | Proposed | 2027 | Unknown | 5,000 |
| FO Permian Partners Data Center Complex | TX | Proposed | 2026 | Unknown | 5,000 |
| Homer City Generating Station | PA | Under Construction | 2029 | Simple Cycle, Combined Cycle | 4,678 |
| Shippingport Power Station (Formerly Bruce Mansfield Power Plant) | PA | Proposed | 2028 | Simple Cycle, Steam Turbine | 3,641 |
| Tenaska Gas Power Plant | NE | Proposed | 2029 | Combined Cycle | 3,000 |
Every dot is a published operating facility. Position and capacity come from the same permit and evidence trail as the fleet table.
Projects under research do not appear here until their coordinates, capacity and status have passed review.
The complete verified operating fleet, with the permit trail on every row. Announced capacity doesn't make this table — first verified megawatts do.
| Facility | MW | Equipment (as permitted) | Permit | Permit → power | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xAI Colossus 1 Memphis, TN · xAI | 247 | 15× Solar SMT-130 | In litigation SCHD 01156-01PC · NAACP v. xAI | −7 mo | SELC |
| xAI Colossus 2 Southaven, MS · xAI | 422 | 27× mixed mobile | Appealed MDEQ · appeal pending | — | mgrid |
| Crusoe Stargate Abilene Abilene, TX · OpenAI via Oracle | 360 | 5× Solar Titan 350 + 5× GE LM2500 | Clean TCEQ reg. 177263 · Title V O4721 | 13 mo | TCEQ |
The industry promises "months, not years." Here's what the record actually shows. Negative numbers mean the turbines ran before the permit existed.
Zero = first air-permit filing; months computed from engine-verified dates — rows show a number only when both dates are published with sources. Grid interconnection median for comparison: 60+ months. Red = operation preceded permit; both xAI sites are in active Clean Air Act litigation.
Fuel by heat rate, capex annualized over 15 years at 10%, O&M — against your grid tariff, and against the value of connecting earlier. Load a real facility or set your own assumptions.
Where the defaults come from: heat rate and 8,760 hr/yr utilization — TCEQ reg. 177263 technical review (Crusoe Abilene); gas price — EIA Henry Hub daily spot; grid tariff band — EIA industrial average by state. Capex and O&M are model assumptions, not sourced facts — that's why they're sliders. Every output is arithmetic on your inputs.
Every facility resolved to the public companies exposed — developer, turbine OEM, fuel supplier, offtaker. Backlogs are guidance; permits are fact.
A new air permit is a new buyer of turbines, gas, and EPC hours. Know who filed this week — before the press release, before your competitor.
Underwrite the next deal with benchmarks from filings, not pitch decks: real $/kW, real months-to-power, real permit risk.
Numbers you can print, with the government document one click away on every row. CC BY 4.0 — quote freely, chart freely, just credit the source.
Every row links to the government document it came from. Here's the pipeline — and what a source actually looks like.
Every number on this site comes from public records — air permits, siting dockets, court filings. Your taxes funded their creation. The data was just scattered across fifty agencies in formats nobody could read.
We collect it, verify it, and structure it. The dataset is free to download and always will be — CSV, JSON, API, no signup wall. Use it in your research, your models, your reporting. All we ask is attribution.
One day we may build paid services on top. The underlying data stays open. That's the deal, in writing.
The industry says "months, not years." The permit record says something more interesting.
Heat rates from permits, gas from the hubs, capex from the record. Reconstructing the numbers nobody publishes.
Where projects actually stall — stage by stage, with the filings to prove it.
Every Tuesday: new filings, verified megawatts, and what they mean. The data is free for everyone. The interpretation arrives by email first.