Tag: California
Solar Energy secures land for solar park
Solar Energy Initiatives Inc. has announced that the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Solar Park Initiatives, have signed a contract securing land for the design, construction and operation of a solar park in California.
USA: solar plant
NTR has announced plans to build its first large-scale solar power plant with the deployment of 60 SunCatcher machines in Arizona within 5 months.
More enviornmentally friendly power plant
Calpine Corp. has been working in cooperation with The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to respond to comments submitted by a number of environmental and local public interest groups, including the Sierra Club and EarthJustice, regarding the company’s proposed 600MW Russell City Energy Center to be built in Hayward, California.
Calpine constructs power plant
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.