Calpine Constructing 750MW Power Plant in Southern California

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Calpine Corporation (NYSE: CPN) (San Jose, California) is constructing a $450 million electrical generating plant in southern California that is scheduled to come online at the end of 2003.

Located near Lebec, off Interstate Highway 5 North, Calpine's Pastoria Energy Center is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant that will utilize three GE combustion turbines, heat recovery steam generators, and a steam turbine generator to produce 750MW of electricity. The company broke ground on the project last July and has started mechanical erection. Pastoria is being engineered by Utility Engineering (Minneapolis, Minnesota), while Kvaerner-Songer, Incorporated (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is performing construction activities.

Founded in 1984, Calpine is a leading private energy producer with over 12,000MW in operation and over 14,000MW under construction and is the world's largest geothermal power producer. The company also owns over 1.3 trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves.