One Texas’s largest power producers has applied to build a new power plant fueled by natural gas in rural Hood County.

On Sept. 19, Houston-based energy company NRG applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for an air permit that would allow the construction of its proposed NRG Tolar Power Center, a new gas-fired power plant with about 2 gigawatts of generating capacity.

The plant would feature two combined-cycle combustion turbines and a unit to generate additional power from recovered steam heat. It could be capable of generating roughly the same pollution as a coal-fired power plant or more than 850,000 gasoline-powered cars and trucks driven for one year.

For more information, see the public notice.