Second big power plant set for Moapa area

Friday, Sept. 29, 2000 | 11:10 a.m.

PG&E Corp. today announced plans to build a natural gas-fueled power plant near Moapa 45 miles northeast of Las Vegas. With a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, it could serve 1 million homes in Nevada and other fast-growing western states.

PG&E is based in San Francisco and is the parent of Pacific Gas and Electic Co., a big California utility. The company owns or controls some 7,000 megawatts of power plant capacity throughout the nation and has another 14,000 megawatts under development.

Its Moapa-area plant is the second proposed for that area. The Paiute ribe wants to build a natural gas-fired plant on land it owns at the Moapa Indian Reservation. Its partner in the deal is Calpine Energy Co. of San Jose.

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