HAYWARD, CA-Hayward city officials will meet this week to begin discussing plans to build a much meeded $400-million power plant in the city’s industrial district, according to a city report. This regulatory and approval processes are expected to take 12 to 18 months.
Calpine Corp. sources say the 600-megawatt power plant would work well in West Hayward’s industrial area because it could use recycled water from the city’s sewage treatment plant and send electricity through nearby transmission lines to a nearby PG&E substation. Calpine officials have said they would like to open the plant by spring or summer 2004 on property north of the State Route 92 approach to the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge on Enterprise Avenue.