16 November 2006 -- Southern California Edison (SCE) yesterday submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for review and approval a long-term power contract, part of the utility's effort to attract investment by independent power producers in new plants to serve Southern California.
The initial winning bidder in SCE's competitive solicitation targeting new generating projects that could come online by next August 1, is Long Beach Generation, LLC, a unit of NRG Energy Inc. Long Beach Generation received a 10-year power-purchase agreement to provide 260 MW of new generating capacity.
SCE added a special summer 2007 track to its solicitation in response to a CPUC assigned commissioner ruling on near-term reliability needs. NRG's "repowered" gas-fired plant was bid into this special track. The new facility is expected to be online at NRG's Long Beach Generating Station by next August. Retired in January 2005, the Long Beach plant will be refitted with emissions-control technology to enable it to return to service.
SCE's new generation initiative, begun in 2005, is designed to address Southern California's need for additional generating capacity. The utility has issued three requests for offers (RFO) of new or repowered generating capacity. One track was for projects that could be online by August 2007, another was for those that could be available August 1, 2010 and a third for new facilities that could be operational by August 1, 2013.
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