Coke County, Texas · ERCOT West
Walnut Creek Ranch
- About 2,460 contiguous private acres, unincorporated county
- 0.5 mi from LCRA TSC's Twin Buttes–Divide 345 kV double circuit
- 2.4 mi from LCRA's Divide Switchyard, where WETT's CREZ Sand Bluff–Divide 345 kV line ends
- About 660 net acres of flat ground (under 5% slope) in Sections 24 and 25, nearest the 345 kV line
- ERCOT's 2025 Constraints & Needs report projects the West Texas Export Interface as its #1 congestion constraint in 2027 and 2030 (report)
- Next door to Aviator Wind, with about 4,700 MW of new wind, solar and storage in the ERCOT queue within 10 mi
- Offered as a study option leading to a long-term ground lease
Aviator Wind output, next door
Nearby large-load projects
- Cipher Digital "Colchis": 1 GW planned, Tom Green County (about 20–30 mi)
- Beacon Dove Creek: 2.4 GW gas plant permit filed, Tom Green County
- Skybox Datacenters: about 350-acre campus, San Angelo (about 30 mi)
- IREN Sweetwater: 1.4 GW energized in 2026, second 600 MW site (about 50 mi)
- Crusoe / OpenAI Stargate: Abilene, about 1.2 GW campus (about 75 mi)
From public announcements; distances are approximate.
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Coke County, Texas · ERCOT West
Walnut Creek, Knapp Mims & Shelving Rock
- About 9,500 participating acres across three neighboring private ranches
- About 5,200 acres under 5% slope in a desktop terrain screen
- 345 kV transmission crosses the participating acreage (LCRA TSC Twin Buttes–Divide)
- LCRA's Divide Switchyard about 0.4 mi from the participating acreage
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Distances are straight-line estimates from public data (Coke CAD, OpenStreetMap, USGS, Texas RRC, TxDOT). Outlines are approximate, not a survey. Nothing here is an offer or a statement of available capacity.
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