Projects

Kern County Projects

Rio Bravo Jasmin ("Jasmin")

Power

• Jasmin is a cogeneration facility located approximately 20 miles north of Bakersfield, California on a 160 acre oil production field.
• Jasmin nominally produces 39 megawatts ("MW") of electricity – enough to power 39,000 homes for one year.
• Jasmin also delivers no less than 5,500 pounds per hour of steam for on-site injection for enhanced oil recovery.
• Jasmin’s primary fuel sources are coal and petroleum coke. Jasmin began commercial operations in the fourth quarter of 1989 and has since operated with an average capacity factor of 95%.

Partnering

• Capacity and energy from Jasmin are sold to Southern California Edison Company under a thirty-year contract, expiring in 2020.

Community Impact

• Direct Employment Revenue: $2.1 million annually
• Related Local Employment Revenue: $4.8 million annually
• Property Taxes: $435,000 annually
• Ancillary Service Revenues: $9.1 million annually

Environment

• The plant utilizes circulating fluidized bed boiler technology to produce quantifiable reductions in major pollutants.

Rio Bravo Poso ("Poso")

Power

• Poso is a cogeneration facility located approximately 8 miles north of Bakersfield, California on an 80 acre oil production field.
• Poso nominally produces 39 MW of electricity – enough to power 39,000 homes for one year.
• Poso delivers no less than 5,500 pounds per hour of steam for on-site injection for enhanced oil recovery.
• Its primary fuel sources are coal and petroleum coke. Poso began commercial operations in the fourth quarter of 1989 and has since operated with an average capacity factor of 95%.

Partnering

• Capacity and energy from Poso are sold to Pacific Gas & Electric Company under a thirty-year contract, expiring 2019.

Community Impact

• Direct Employment Revenue: $2.0 million annually
• Related Local Employment Revenue: $4.5 million annually
• Property Taxes: $490,000 annually
• Ancillary Service Revenues: $8.8 million annually

Environment

• The plant utilizes circulating fluidized bed boiler technology to produce quantifiable reductions in major pollutants.

Rio Bravo Fresno ("Fresno")

Power

• Fresno is a power production facility located approximately 5 miles south of Fresno, California on a 25 acre industrial site.
• Fresno nominally produces 25 MW of biomass fired electricity – enough to power 20,000 homes for one year.
• Fresno’s fuel consists of approximately 240,000 tons annually of biomass waste. This biomass waste consists of agricultural trimmings, urban wood waste, in-forest brush and clearing, and other wood related products.
• Fresno began commercial operations in the summer of 1988 and has since operated with an average capacity factor of 77%.

Partnering

• Capacity and energy from Fresno are sold to Pacific Gas & Electric Company under a thirty-year contract, expiring 2018.

Community Impact

• Direct Employment Revenue: $2.2 million annually
• Related Local Employment Revenue: $4.2 million annually
• Property Taxes: $122,000 annually
• Ancillary Service Revenues: $5.7 million annually

Environment

• Absent disposal of this biomass product in an environmentally responsible manner in which emission limitations are controlled, the material would either be placed in landfills or be disposed of through open field burning.
• The plant utilizes circulating fluidized bed boiler technology to produce quantifiable reductions in major pollutants.

Sonora

Chinese Station

Power

• The Chinese Station Facility is an approximate 22 MW biomass fired facility located near Jamestown, California.
• The primary fuel sources for the Facility are urban wood waste, agricultural wood waste, sawmill residue, in-forest clearing and agricultural shells.

Partnering

• Energy and capacity from Chinese Station are sold to Pacific Gas & Electric Company under a Power Purchase Agreement which expires in 2027.

Community Impact

• Direct Employment Revenue: $1.5 million
• Related Local Employment Revenue: $4.0 million
• Property Taxes: $151,000

Environment 

• Absent disposal of this biomass product in an environmentally responsible manner in which emission limitations are controlled, the material would either be placed in landfills or be disposed of through open field burning.
• The plant utilizes circulating bubbling bed boiler technology to produce quantifiable reductions in major pollutants.

Rio Bravo Rocklin ("Rocklin")

Power

• Rocklin is a power production facility located approximately 3 miles northeast of Roseville, California on a 50 acre industrial site.
• Rocklin nominally produces 25 MW of biomass fired electricity – enough to power 20,000 homes, for one year.
• Rocklin’s fuel consists of approximately 240,000 tons annually of biomass waste. This biomass waste principally consists of urban wood waste, in-forest brush and clearing, and other wood related products.
• Rocklin began commercial operations in the summer of 1989 and has since operated with an average capacity factor of 77%.

Partnering

• Capacity and energy from Rocklin are sold to Pacific Gas & Electric Company under a thirty-year contract.

Community Impact

• Direct Employment Revenue: $2.3 million annually
• Related Local Employment Revenue: $4.0 million annually
• Property Taxes: $107,000 annually
• Ancillary Service Revenues: $5.0 million annually

Environment

• Absent disposal of this biomass product in an environmentally responsible manner in which emission limitations are controlled, the material would either be placed in landfills or be disposed of through open field burning.
• The plant utilizes circulating fluidized bed boiler technology to produce quantifiable reductions in major pollutants.

Blue Lake

Blue Lake is a power production facility located on a 25 acre site in the Town of Blue Lake, approximately 10 miles north of Eureka in Humboldt County, California.  Blue Lake was contractually curtailed in 2000.

Blue Lake is fully permitted to operate.

As a result of recent California energy issues encouraging renewable generation, NAPG is considering the restart of Blue Lake.

Two Elk Energy Park ("Two Elk")

The Two Elk project is a proposed series of highly efficient waste coal and coal-fired power generation facilities strategically located in Campbell County, Wyoming, approximately 45 miles southeast of Gillette, Wyoming and adjacent to the nation’s largest coal mines which produce low sulfur coal for electric supply.  Two Elk is adjacent to Arch Coal Company’s Black Thunder Mine; Peabody Coal Company’s North Rochelle-Antelope Mine Complex and recently announced School Creek Mine; and Kennecott’s Jacobs Ranch Mine.  Collectively, these mining facilities in 2005 produced and shipped over 210 million tons of extremely low sulfur sub-bituminous coal; enough coal to produce over 20% of the nation’s electric supply.  With a mine-mouth location, Two Elk will be among the lowest cost electric producers in the western U.S.

Unit #1

• Unit #1 is an advanced 325 MW pulverized waste coal fueled facility with full emission controls to meet environmental standards.
• Unit #1 has been designed and arranged to consume waste coal as its primary fuel; material that is currently not used and reclaimed by the adjacent mine.   Unit #1 will use this throw-away material to produce useable electricity.  Unit #1 also will utilize dry cooling technology reducing its water needs to approximately one tenth the water needed by conventional cooled power facilities its size.  Additionally, Unit #1 will employ advanced flue gas desulphurization for SOx removal and selective catalytic reduction NOx removal.  A pulse jet baghouse will remove particulates.
• Construction of Unit #1 is anticipated to be completed in 2010 with construction employing nearly 600 professional and craft personnel at its peak.
• Power will be exported to long term energy and capacity contract buyers using transmission services and newly expanded capabilities from PacifiCorp.
• Unit #1 is currently under construction.

Expansion Units

• NAPG has begun the permitting of additional (Expansion) power generation facilities (Units) beginning with Unit #2 at the Two Elk Energy Park site.
• Each Expansion Unit will be permitted, owned and operated independently.
• Each Expansion Unit will be equipped to employ carbon capture, at least in a pilot phase.
• Expansion Units are anticipated to be either a nominal 750 MW Supercritical Pulverized Coal or a nominal 600 MW Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle facility.
• Fuel for the Expansion Units can be supplied by the existing, adjacent mines under existing mining permits.
• No intermediate transportation or handling of fuel is necessary. All fuel deliveries will be by mine truck or overland conveyor belt.
• Water for each of the Expansion Units will be supplied by the existing permitted water wells.

Transmission

• Unit #1 will be interconnected with and become a “network” resource in the PacifiCorp transmission system.
• The Expansion Units are expected to help anchor major transmission expansions for Wyoming.

Community Contributions

• Consumes non-commercial fuel resources currently being lost forever
• Increases local construction and provides new permanent jobs
• Increases demand for local products and services
• Provides long-term local revenue through new property taxes
• Important platform for further growth in the region
• Improves electric reliability and power in the region
• Provides a low-cost power resource
• Employs the latest power technology and emission control

Environment

• The Plants are designed to use an air-cooled condenser, requiring only approximately 10% of the total water requirement of power plants their size.
• The facility design and layout allow continuing opportunities for new equipment to be added.  Current post combustion processes allow for CO₂ capture.  Future improvements are being explored.  The Two Elk complex is approximately 30 miles from oil fields currently serving as injection sites for CO₂.  These sites provide a ready, local product for captured CO₂.
• The co-location of Unit #1 and the Expansion Units will minimize impacts of greenfield development.
• NAPG will focus on opportunities to co-develop Wyoming’s wind resources along the transmission corridors.