North Texas Co-op Building $685M Gas Plant

There’s just no stopping Texas. Rayburn Electric Cooperative broke ground on Rayburn Energy Station II (RES II), a $685 million, 570-megawatt natural gas generation facility that will strengthen reliability for more than 625,000 Texans served by Rayburn’s four Member cooperatives across North Texas. Located adjacent to Rayburn Energy Station I (RES I) in Sherman, RES II will provide firm, dispatchable generation during periods of peak demand, bolstering reliability across the ERCOT region. 

The project is being financed in part through the Texas Energy Fund. 

Siemens Energy will supply ten SGT-800 industrial gas turbines, providing the plant’s core generation technology. Primoris Services Corporation will serve as the engineering, procurement, and construction partner for the project.

The project is expected to create approximately 250 construction jobs, with commercial operations planned for summer 2028. When complete, RES I and RES II will form a combined generation complex exceeding 1,300 megawatts in one of Texas’s fastest-growing regions.