$400-Mil Partnership Plans Power Plant in Baja

LOS ANGELES-Hoping to ease the West’s growing energy crisis, the parent of two of California’s largest utilities has formed a $400-million partnership to build a liquid natural gas terminal in Mexico.

The project will rise in Baja California, about 60 miles south of San Diego. It will be the first liquid natural gas terminal on the West Coast and also mark the increasingly important role that Mexico is playing in the efforts to solve the energy shortage facing not just California but many other parts of the western US.

The plant will be build by a partnership of Sempra Energy–parent of LA-based Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric–and CMS Energy Corp. Michigan-based CMS has built dozens of natural gas and electric projects all over the world.