Huntington Beach generating station

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Huntington Beach generating station is an operating power station of at least 917-megawatts (MW) in Huntington Beach, Orange, California, United States. It is also known as AES Huntington Beach Energy Project.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Huntington Beach generating station Huntington Beach, Orange, California, United States 33.645618, -117.9794 (exact)[1]

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Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):

  • 2, CCT1: 33.645618, -117.9794

Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name Status Fuel(s) Capacity (MW) Technology CHP Start year Retired year
2 Operating[2] fossil gas: natural gas[3] 218[3] steam turbine[3] no[3] 1958[4] 2026 (planned)[5][3][6][7]
CCT1 Operating[8] fossil gas: natural gas[4] 699[4] combined cycle[4] no[4] 2020[4]

CHP is an abbreviation for Combined Heat and Power. It is a technology that produces electricity and thermal energy at high efficiencies. Coal units track this information in the Captive Use section when known.

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name Owner Parent
2 AES Huntington Beach LLC [100%][9] AES Corp [100.0%]
CCT1 AES Huntington Beach Energy LLC [65%]; Ullico Infrastructure Southland Borrower LLC [35%][9][9] AES Corp [65.0%]; Ullico [35.0%]

Financing

| The AES Corporation[100.0%][10]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (November 2022)". Archived from the original on 2023-01-22. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20210917190609/https://www.thelog.com/local/aes-power-plants-to-remain-open-a-little-longer/. Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (May 2023)". Archived from the original on 2023-09-18. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (November 2019)". Archived from the original on 2020-06-12. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20221027152100/https://www.energy.ca.gov/powerplant/simple-cycle/huntington-beach-generating-station-retool-project. Archived from the original on 2022-10-27. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220901041507/https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ocean/cwa316/saccwis/docs/21draftreport.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-01. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860 detailed data with previous form data (EIA-860A/860B), 2012". Archived from the original on 2022-10-28. Retrieved 2023-11-01 00:00:00. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  8. EIA21 https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2019-08-21/new-power-plant-in-huntington-beach-is-91-complete-aes-says; EIA21. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860 detailed data with previous form data (EIA-860A/860B), 2020". Archived from the original on 2021-04-18. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  10. "2020 Annual Report" (PDF). AES. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 7, 2021.

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