NRG to Build 500 Megawatts of Gas-Fired Generation in California

SUGAR LAND--August 6, 2015--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--NRG Energy Incorporated (NYSE:NRG) (Princeton, New Jersey) earlier this summer received the green light from California utility regulators to construct a 500-megawatt (MW), five-unit, simple-cycle, gas-fired power plant in southern California. The new generation will ensure electric reliability in Southern California following the closure in 2014 of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and the impending retirement of the Encina Power Station, a victim of California's ban on once-through-cooling systems. Encina, located in Carlsbad, California, is owned by NRG.

Within this article: Details on plans by NRG Energy to build a 500-megawatt power plant in southern California.

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