Nine Proposed Natural-Gas-Fired Projects in Southern California Totaling 5,600 Megawatts Apply for Emission-Reduction Credits

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Nine proposed natural-gas-fired power plants along the southern coast of California, ranging from 370 megawatts (MW) to 943 MW, have applied for emission-reduction credits from the Air Quality Management District's Priority Reserve Account. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (Diamond Bar, California) is continuing to work with the projects so they can meet the requirements for the credits. Unfortunately, because of a recent court decision that set aside the Priority Reserve's regulations, the credits currently cannot be accessed in order to move ahead with the projects.

The nine projects include three proposed by the cities of Palmdale, Victorville and Vernon. All three of those would be combined-cycle plants with combustion turbines, heat recovery steam generators and a steam turbine generator. Palmdale and Victorville will have some solar generation. The other six projects are by major developers, including:

• AES Corporation (NYSE:AES) (Arlington, Virginia)
• Competitive Power Ventures Incorporated (Silver Spring, Maryland)
• Edison International (NYSE:EIX) (Rosemead, California)
• NRG Energy Incorporated (NYSE:NRG) (Princeton, New Jersey)
• Reliant Energy Incorporated (NYSE:RRI) (Houston, Texas)

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