Oak Grove Power Plant is a 1.79-gigawatt (1,796 MW),[1] coal power plant located north of Franklin, Texas in Robertson County, Texas. The plant is operated by Vistra Energy. It began operations in 2010.
History
Plans for Oak Grove began in the 1970s as Texas Power & Light (a forerunner of Luminant) and Alcoa made an agreement to jointly operate a power plant named Twin Oak Steam Electric Station in Robertson County. The plan was to construct two, 750 MW units to burn lignite and be ready for commercial generation by 1981. The electricity generated would run to Alcoa's aluminium smelting facility in Palestine, Texas.[2] Twin Oaks Reservoir was developed by impounding Duck Creek in 1982 to act as a cooling source for the plant.[3] In 1983, Alcoa attempted to sell its stake in Twin Oak to Halliburton