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From Wikipedia regarding this power plant: "The Dynegy power plant, previously owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co.(PG&E), Duke Energy, and LSPower (PG&E), has played a large role in Morro Bay, and in providing electricity to the Central Coast and the Central Valley of California (primarily Fresno and Bakersfield). The plant was built in the 1950s, and Dynegy had hoped to modernize it with a new combined cycle plant. The plant was operating at relatively low capacity factors (approximately 5%) under contract with PG&E, due primarily to economics. The plant was staffed with 44 employees. A portion of the city's budget came from taxes on the natural gas the plant burned. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the courts are wrestling with how to interpret the Clean Water Act (CWA) and its applicability to power plants. The EPA has ruled that the local Regional Water Quality Control Boards are responsible for ensuring that the current and the future plant are permitted and regulated.[citation needed]
The modernization proposal was rejected, and the plant closed in February 2014.[37] Continued operation would have required expensive upgrades by 2015. The 650-megawatt plant operated around the clock during the energy crisis of 2000, but the plant had been operating at just one-sixth of that capacity in the recent years preceding its closure.[38] Future uses of the site and/or plant are undetermined, as of December 2016.
In 2018, a joint venture of German energy company EnBW and Seattle-based Trident Winds announced its plan to obtain the power plant's grid connection to connect a 650 MW floating offshore wind park comprising up to 100 floating wind turbines and a floating substation situated some 30 mi (48 km) off the coast.[39]." See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morro_Bay,_California
680 MW Natural Gas Combined Cycle/Simple Cycle power plant. Previously owned by FirstEnegy; acquired by LS Power in 2017.
Owner: Bernie & Jessica Bowman of Pittsburgh, PA.
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Owner: Bernie & Jessica Bowman of Pittsburgh, PA.
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93-Mile Transmission Upgrade from Marcy to New Scotland Helps to Harden Grid Against Extreme Weather and Advances New York’s Clean Energy Goals
Princetown Substation Energization in Schenectady County Brings Project to Three-Quarter Completion Mark
Morro Rock is a 581-foot volcanic plug located just off-shore of Morro Bay, California at the entrance to the Morro Bay Harbor and a causeway connects it with the shore, effectively making it a tied island.
Morro Rock was first charted in 1542 by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who called it El Morro, which translates from Spanish to "the pebble". Since then, it has become an important landmark to sailors and travelers.
Morro Rock is considered a sacred site by the Chumash Indian tribe, who had an important nearby prehistoric settlement at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon, which village was near the mouth of Morro Creek. The Chumash have the rare exemption to legally climb Morro Rock for their annual Solstice ceremony.
Morro Rock is the best known of the Nine Sisters of San Luis Obispo County, a series of ancient volcanic plugs which line the Los Osos Valley between the cities of Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo.
The Dynegy power plant, previously owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Duke Energy, and LSPower (PG&E), plays a large role in Morro Bay, and in providing reliable electricity to the Central Coast and the Central Valley of California (primarily Fresno and Bakersfield). Its future is currently, as of 2007, uncertain. The current plant was built in the 1950s, and Dynegy wishes to modernize it with a new combined cycle plant. Due primarily to economics, the plant is currently operating at relatively low capacity factors (approximately 5%) under contract with PG&E. The plant is currently staffed with 44 employees. A portion of the city's budget comes from tax on the natural gas the plant burns. The outfall lease with the city was recently approved by the majority of the city council. Activists are opposed to the new plant. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the courts are currently wrestling with how to interpret the Clean Water Act (CWA) and its applicability to power plants. The EPA has ruled that the local Regional Water Quality Control Boards are responsible for ensuring that the current and the future plant are permitted and regulated. If the proposed plant is eventually built, the old power plant and its 450 ft. tall stacks will be removed. The modernized plant would be located slightly northwest of the existing plant, and its stacks would be much shorter (145 ft).
93-Mile Transmission Upgrade from Marcy to New Scotland Helps to Harden Grid Against Extreme Weather and Advances New York’s Clean Energy Goals
Princetown Substation Energization in Schenectady County Brings Project to Three-Quarter Completion Mark
93-Mile Transmission Upgrade from Marcy to New Scotland Helps to Harden Grid Against Extreme Weather and Advances New York’s Clean Energy Goals
Princetown Substation Energization in Schenectady County Brings Project to Three-Quarter Completion Mark
93-Mile Transmission Upgrade from Marcy to New Scotland Helps to Harden Grid Against Extreme Weather and Advances New York’s Clean Energy Goals
Princetown Substation Energization in Schenectady County Brings Project to Three-Quarter Completion Mark
93-Mile Transmission Upgrade from Marcy to New Scotland Helps to Harden Grid Against Extreme Weather and Advances New York’s Clean Energy Goals
Princetown Substation Energization in Schenectady County Brings Project to Three-Quarter Completion Mark
93-Mile Transmission Upgrade from Marcy to New Scotland Helps to Harden Grid Against Extreme Weather and Advances New York’s Clean Energy Goals
Princetown Substation Energization in Schenectady County Brings Project to Three-Quarter Completion Mark