CALPEAK POWER BORDER PEAKER PLANT

How CALPEAK POWER BORDER PEAKER PLANT compares

With 52 MW of capacity, CALPEAK POWER BORDER PEAKER PLANT ranks 243rd among the 874 operating power plants Bywatts maps in California and 89th of the 190 operating Natural Gas plants in the state. It accounts for about 0.1% of California's operating Natural Gas capacity and under 0.1% of all operating capacity in the state. Nationally it is the 801st-largest of the 1,185 operating Natural Gas plants in the database. Commissioned in 2001, it is older than 55% of the 859 operating California plants with a recorded commissioning year. It shares San Diego County with 36 other operating plants, including OTAY MESA GENERATING PROJECT and CARLSBAD ENERGY CENTER.

EIA-860 lists 1 generator at the site with 61 MW of nameplate capacity, all natural gas fired combustion turbine technology (this page's HIFLD capacity figure is 52 MW). Net generation was 14.8 GWh in 2024 (a 2.8% capacity factor).

Grid neighborhood

The nearest named substation is LARKSPUR ENERGY, under 0.1 miles away; the closest transmission line found within 10 miles is a 230 kV line owned by SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC, about 2.1 miles away. Another 12 operating power plants totaling 1,294 MW sit within 25 miles; the largest is OTAY MESA GENERATING PROJECT (689 MW, Natural Gas). Within 50 miles are 4 mapped data centers; the nearest is LightEdge San Diego 1 (SAN1) in San Diego, about 21.3 miles away.

Computed by Bywatts from HIFLD power plant, substation and transmission line records, EIA-860/923 survey data and PeeringDB data center locations; distances are straight-line. Sources and methodology