Calpine 300 MW Calgary Energy Center Starts Commercial Operation

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Calpine Power Income Fund (TSE: CF.UN) (Calgary, Alberta), managed by Calpine Canada Power Limited a division of Calpine Corporation (NYSE: CPN) (San Jose, California) announced that they had begun commercial operation at Calgary Energy Centre (Calgary, Alberta) on March 31, 2003 bringing total generation capacity in Canada to 575-megawatts (MW). Calpine's other generation in Canada consists of an interest in a 50MW Whitby Cogeneration plant in Whitby, Ontario and the 225MW Island Cogeneration plant in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Calgary Energy Centre cost about $204 million and is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant that consists of a Siemens Westinghouse (SWPC) combustion turbine/generator 501FG, a Deltak HRSG (heat recovery steam generator) and a Fuji Heavy Industry steam turbine/generator. To help reduce nitrogen oxide emissions it has a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit. The plant is located in the northeastern part of Calgary.

Calpine was founded in 1984, has over 3,500 employees and is a leading PEP (Private Energy Producer). Calpine Corporation is a leading independent power company that currently operates 70 projects with generating capacity over 19,000MW of energy capacity in operation and over 10,300MW at more than 16 locations under construction or in development in 29 states, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Calpine generates electricity using two proven and environmentally friendly technologies - natural gas combined-cycle and geothermal (Calpine is the world's largest producer of geothermal energy).