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In 1933, Shamrock built its first refinery and its first gas station, both in Sunray, Moore County, Texas. James Harold Dunn joined the company in 1938 as a vice president and general manager, having previously been an engineer at the Lone Star Gas Corporation. The following year Shamrock showed its first, albeit small, profit.
The Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County is the largest power station in California with a nameplate capacity of 2,256 MW and an annual generation of 18,214 GWh in 2018. [6] The largest under construction is the Westlands Solar Park in Kings County , which will generate 2,000 MW when completed in 2025.
Natural-gas-fired electricity generator plants have been the dominant use of natural gas California for many years. Natural gas is a dispatchable resource that fills in the gaps from other electrical resources when peak power loads are needed. In addition, CO 2 releases from a natural-gas-fired generator station are about half the CO 2 that ...
In June 2005, Valero announced that it was beginning a two-year process of converting Diamond Shamrock stations to the Valero brand. [15] And in 2008, the company bought 72 Albertsons gas stations. [16] In 2009, it was reported that Valero lost an average $1 million per day since the beginning of the year. [17]
Natural gas power stations opened at a fast rate throughout the 2010s, quickly replacing aging, dirty, and economically unviable coal-fired power stations, but by the early 2020s new plants were mostly wind and solar with only Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania continuing to open significant numbers of gas plants. [3]
Pages in category "Natural gas-fired power stations in California" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2017, the company opened two new hybrid electric gas turbine (EGT) units called peaker plants, that combine gas turbines and storage batteries at the same site. Each plant delivers around 50-megawatts; the batteries can provide 10-megawatts and four megawatt-hours of power.
About 2/3 of California's home heating is supplied by natural gas, and most new homes are constructed with both natural gas and electric heating. [104] The California Building Standards Code has targeted residential energy efficiency since 1978; [105] Part 11 of the code is the California Green Building Standards Code.