Russell City Energy Center
Russell City Energy Center is a natural gas-fired power facility with 655 MW of EIA-reported nameplate capacity in Alameda County, California, registered as EIA Plant ID 56467. Calpine, LLC is the public owner or developer; Russell City Energy Company LLC is the registered plant entity or operator. The plant's generating configuration is natural-gas-fired, wet-cooled combined-cycle plant with two Siemens Westinghouse F-class combustion-turbine generators, two heat-recovery steam generators, and one condensing steam-turbine generator. Commercial operation began on August 8, 2013. Its grid role is dispatchable combined-cycle generation; it historically supported CAISO black-start service, but is no longer designated as a Black Start resource.