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FACTS & FIGURES
CalEnergy Generation
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 Overview
CalEnergy is an international leader in the
development and production of energy from diversified fuel sources including
geothermal, natural gas and hydroelectric.
History
CalEnergy was founded in 1971 to provide
consulting and development services for geothermal power production facilities
in North America. During the next two decades, the company made the transition
from a service provider to an independent power producer, acquiring the assets
of several United States geothermal facilities and exploring opportunities in
energy markets around the world. The company relocated to Omaha in 1991 and
began to develop geothermal energy projects in the Philippines.
Currently, CalEnergy and its affiliate companies have operations and
project developments in the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, the
Philippines and Australia.
CalEnergy operates 15 electric power-generating facilities in the
United States and one in the Philippines. The majority of the U.S. plants use
renewable geothermal energy to generate electricity.
U.S. Operations
The company has 10 geothermal generation facilities in California, as well as
natural gas-fueled generating plants in Cordova, Ill.; Big Spring, Texas;
Yuma, Ariz.; and Plattsburgh, N.Y. Combined, the natural gas plants have a
net output of 969 megawatts, while the geothermal facilities in the western
United States have the capacity to produce 327 megawatts of electricity. The
company also owns a hydroelectric facility in Wailuku, Hawaii that has the
capacity to generate 10 megawatts of electricity.
Philippine Operations
CalEnergy owns and operates a power plant in the
norther part of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Commencing
commercial operation in December 2001, the Casecnan Multipurpose
Irrigation and Power Project is a combined hydroelectric and irrigation
facility which diverts excess water from the Casecnan and Taan Rivers
through a 16-mile tunnel to a generating plant. The water is then used to
irrigate more than 338,000 acres of rice fields in central Luzon. In
addition to generating 150 megawatts from its own hydroelectric plant, it
feeds water to two other hydroelectric plants.
United Kingdom
CalEnergy Gas operates a producing natural gas field -
Victor Gas Field - located in the North Sea.
Poland
The company is developing natural gas production
opportunities in northwestern Poland.
Australia
CalEnergy Gas has development interests in natural gas
fields located in the Onshore Perth Basin of western Australia and near the
coast of Victoria in Australia.
Media Contact
Mark Reinders, 712-277-7866 |
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