Editing Garland, Texas (section)

===Utilities===
The city of Garland operates the city's water system and waste services. Electricity for about 85% of Garland is provided by the city's municipal utility, Garland Power and Light (GP&L). Electricity for the other 15% was formerly provided by [[Energy Future Holdings|TXU]], but is now supplied by multiple companies after [[deregulation of the Texas electricity market]].

====Water and wastewater utilities====

Garland is an original member city of the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD).  The vision of the city fathers in the early 1940s resulted in Garland and its companion member cities benefitting from reliable, high quality, affordable water from the water district's many reservoirs.

The effluent from Garland's wastewater treatment plant flows through a NTMWD man-made, {{convert|1840|acre|km2|adj=on}} wetland.  This provides a natural habitat for a wide variety of birds and reduces the sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus contents of the water to a drinkable level. Through the use of selected aquatic plants, this environmentally friendly project will provide millions of gallons of reusable water and reduce the environmental impact.

====Garland Power and Light====
[[File:GarlandPowerandLightLogo.png|thumb|Garland Power and Light logo]]

GP&L was founded in 1923 to provide Garland residents not-for-profit [[public utility]] services, locally controlled by its citizens. GP&L provides services to over 69,000 customers, making it the fourth-largest municipal utility in Texas and the 41st-largest in the nation.
It has two gas-fired generating plants, which combined have 640 megawatts of generation capacity.  Garland also partners with the Texas Municipal Power Agency, which operates the 462-megawatt coal-fired Gibbons Creek Power Plant. Garland's electric distribution system has {{convert|1007|mi|km|abbr=on}} of overhead lines and {{convert|1000|mi|km|abbr=on}} of underground lines. Its transmission system consists of 23 substations and {{convert|133|mi|km|abbr=on}} of transmission lines. Garland's peak load for 2007 was 483 megawatts, with annual operating revenues of nearly $238 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garlandpower-light.org/aboutus.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731173428/http://www.garlandpower-light.org/aboutus.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 31, 2012|title=Welcome To Garland Power & Light|work=garlandpower-light.org|access-date=May 4, 2015}}</ref>