Calpine Corporation 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.