Calpine Receives Approval for 600MW Metcalf Energy Center in California, in an Advisory by Industrialinfo.com.Business Editors & Energy Writers HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2001 Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , Inc.; Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the ) has reported that Calpine Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPN CPN Communist Party of Nepal CPN Commercial Property News CPN Civic Practices Network CPN Calling Party Number CPN Community Psychiatric Nurse (UK) CPN Cisco Powered Network CPN Connaitre et Proteger la Nature ) (San Jose, Calif.) received licensing approval Monday from state regulators to proceed with the construction of the Metcalf Energy Center The Metcalf Energy Center is a 600 megawatt combined cycle power plant located in South San Jose, California in an area known as Coyote Valley. The power plant is owned by Calpine and powered by natural gas. project in South San Jose South San Jose is a large geographic area in San Jose, California, USA. South San Jose consists mainly of middle-class latino neighborhoods. Some of those neighborhoods include:
Calpine, along with development partner and turn-key contractor Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, Incorporated (San Francisco, CA) plans to proceed with construction immediately on a $300 million 600 mega-watt (MW) natural-gas fired combined-cycle power plant that will be the largest of its kind in the Silicon Valley. The Coyote Valley plant, utilizing two Westinghouse model 501F combustion turbines and a steam turbine generator, is scheduled to begin delivering power to the grid as early as summer of 2003. Monday's 5-0 vote ended a two year debate period between a South San Jose neighborhood and Calpine, the nation's fastest growing independent power company. Ken Abreu, General Manager of the Calpine/Bechtel Joint Venture stated, "We are extremely proud of the tremendous support we have received from such a wide variety of organizations, community leaders and the citizens of San Jose. We have always believed this is an ideal location for a plant, in a region without its own local source of significant power generation." Calpine is focused on clean, efficient, natural gas-fired generation and is the world's largest producer of renewable geothermal energy. They have launched the largest power development program in North America. To date, the company has approximately 34,900MW of base load capacity and 7,600MW of peaking capacity in operation, under construction, and in announced development in 29 states, the United Kingdom and Canada. Bechtel Enterprises is the development, financing and ownership affiliate of the Bechtel organization, a global engineering and construction firm. They have been at the center of energy development since the 1940's, having built more than 450 power stations with a total generating capacity exceeding 250,000MW. Industrialinfo.com provides daily news related to the industrial market place including industry alerts and databases for the energy and industrial markets. For more information on trends and upcoming construction activities for the Energy and Power markets as well as other industrial sectors send inquiries to powergroup@industrialinfo.com or visit us at www.industrialinfo.com. |
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