PGE is ready to kick off a run of new power plants and investments over the next five years.
To address the energy supply shortfall and other issues, Portland General Electric is gearing up for a run of new power plants and investments over the next five years.
On deck first are two new plants that could be in operation between 2012 and 2015.
Oregon’s largest utility hopes to build a combined cycle gas plant capable of generating some 400 megawatts of electricity next to its coal-fired power plant in Boardman east of Mount Hood. That’s enough electricity to serve about 300,000 customers.
The Boardman gas plant comes on top of a less efficient, 100 to 200 megawatt single-cycle turbine to fill in peak needs that the company hopes to build adjacent to its existing Port Westward gas plant in Clatskanie west of Portland.
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