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The gas turbines were first fired in November 2008; [7] commercial operation, supplying power to nearly 400,000 customers, began on January 4, 2009. [ 7 ] [ 11 ] Randy Livingston, PG&E's vice president of power generation, said to the Brentwood Press that the project came "ahead of schedule, on budget, and we had no lost-time injuries during ...
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.
The generated steam is let in a single steam turbine generator (STG) of 235 MW maximum. Resulting peak output is 635 MW gross. Under baseload operation, the output is 184 MW gross from each gas-turbine and 198 MW gross for the steam-turbine, adding to 567 MW gross of which 14 MW consumed by the auxiliary equipment, yielding a 553 MW net output.
The Sonoma Calpine 3 geothermal power plant at The Geysers field in the Mayacamas Mountains of Sonoma County, California. In 1998, Calpine purchased 45 gas turbine power plants. The following year it purchased 18 gas turbine power plants and acquired PG&E's plants at The Geysers, making Calpine the world's largest geothermal provider.
On December 27, 2013, AES submitted an application to the California Energy Commission to modernize the existing power station. The project consists of a 640 MW combined cycle gas turbine (Block 1) and a 400 MW simple cycle gas turbine (Block 2), both of which use air-cooled condensers for cooling. [5]
Between 2013 and 2015, the Department of Water and Power replaced the original Unit 3 “with a highly efficient combined cycle (natural gas and steam) turbine and two simple-cycle turbines.” [1] The plant is currently powered by gas supplied by Southern California Gas. [10] Waste gas from the neighboring Hyperion sewage treatment plant was ...
This is a list of the largest operational natural gas-fired power stations in the United States. Chehalis Power Plant, a 698 MW natural gas power plant in Chehalis, Washington. In 2019 there were around 1900 natural gas power stations in the United States, of which about 800 belonged to electric utilities. [1]
The new units 1 and 2 were brought online in 2002. They are combined cycle units, 50% more efficient than the other units, because they use two turbines: first, a pair of 170 MW gas turbines, then a 190 MW steam turbine, for a total of 530 MW each. When completed in 2002, the plant was the largest power plant in California by capacity, at 2560 MW.