FROM THE 1956 GULF STATES ANNUAL REPORT

Neches Station, located near Beaumont, Texas, is one of four electric generating stations supplying the Gulf States Utilities Company system. Until April, 1949, Neches Station had only three units with the aggregate capability of 88,000 kilowatts. By April, 1952, three additional units with an aggregate capability of 177,000 kilowatts, had been added. In March, 1956, Unit No. 7, with a capability of 111,000 kilowatts and of fully out-door-type construction as shown on the left of the picture, was "put on line". The second outdoor 111,000 kilowatt unit, Unit 8, is being installed adjacent to that shown and is scheduled for operation in the spring of 1958, to bring total capability of the station to 487,000 kilowatts.

Other electric generating stations of the Company are located at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, and have a combined capability of 468,000kilowatts. A new generating station is under construction at Westlake, Louisiana, about four miles north of Lake Charles. Plans initially call for the installation of two units with a capability of 111,000 kilowatts each - one scheduled for operation in the spring of 1958 and the other in early 1959.

In addition, a second new generating station will be built at once on the east bank of the Mississippi River on a site to be selected south of Baton Rouge. The installation will be one unit with a capability of 162,000 kilowatts, to be in operation early in 1959.