UPDATE 1-AES California Redondo 8 natgas unit back
September 4th, 2008 | by admin |(Recasts with return of unit)
NEW YORK, Sept 3 (Reuters) - AES Corp’s (AES.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)480-megawatt Unit 8 at Redondo Beach natural gas-fired powerstation in California was back on-line on Wednesday after aone-day shutdown, the California Independent System Operatorsaid in a report.
The 1,310 MW station is located in Redondo in Los AngelesCounty, about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. There arefour units at Redondo, two 175 MW Units 5 (which enteredservice in 1954) and 6 (1957), and two 480 MW Units 7 (1967)and 8 (1967).
The other units were available for service.
One MW powers about 700 homes in California.
AES, of Arlington, Virginia, owns and operates power plantswith more than 43,000 MW of generation in the Americas, Europe,Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, markets energy commodities, andtransmits and distributes power around the world. (Reporting by Bernie Woodall and Scott DiSavino, editing byRichard Chang)
