Big Brown Power Plant was a 1.15-gigawatt (1,150 MW) coal power plant located northeast of Fairfield near Fairfield Lake State Park in Freestone County, Texas. It was operated by Vistra Corp's subsidiary, Luminant. The plant operated from 1971 to 2018.
History
Big Brown was constructed by Texas Utilities (now known as Luminant) and went into operation in 1971.[2] It has two units.[3] Big Brown Creek was impounded to form the plant's cooling source. The dam was completed in 1969 creating Fairfield Lake.[4] The power plant used lignite from the nearby Turlington Mine and later supplemented with coal from Peabody Energy's Rawhide Mine