Under Construction 4,308 MW
Estimates of the construction interval for a new Combined Cycle (CC) unit range from 12 to 24 months.

For example, my interviews of utility officials in 1998 indicated a one year lead time for construction.

More recent information suggests the interval is longer. For example, several power company offcials intervied for the San Francisco Chronicle (1-30-01) estimated the construction interval at two years.

A two year interval is also estimated in a recent EPRI Technical Report on the "Prospects for Boom/Bust in the US Electric Power Industry."		  
 Name Developer County Permit
Received

Size
(MW)

 completion
date
Sutter Power Calpine Sutter  April '99

500

 Aug 2001
Los Medanos Enron Contra Costa  August '99

500

 July 2001
 Sunrise (peaker) Texaco Kern  

320

Summer 2001
La Paloma PG&E Gen. Kern  October '99

1,048

 Nov 2001
Delta Energy Calpine & Bechtel Contra Costa  February '00

880

 July 2002
Moss Landing Duke Energy Monterey

1060

June 2002

Based on these expected completion dates, California would have 500+500+320 or 1,320 MW of additional capacity on line in the Summer of 2001.