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Miramar — Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine · NRG Cabrillo Power Ops IncEnerSmart Mesa Heights Sub Station — Storage · CA · 3 MW · 6.0 km awayL3 Harris San Diego — Solar · CA · 1.6 MW · 6.6 km awayRancho Penasquitos — Hydro · CA · 4.3 MW · 8.4 km awayPomerado Energy Storage, LLC — Storage · CA · 6 MW · 13.8 km awayAlvarado Hydro Facility — Hydro · CA · 1.4 MW · 15.7 km awayEnerSmart Murray BESS — Storage · CA · 21 MW · 16.5 km awayEnerSmart El Cajon BESS — Storage · CA · 3 MW · 23.9 km away
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Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 1% of 2016 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1972
Net generation, 2016
2,624 MWh
Location
San Diego County, California
Operated by
NRG Cabrillo Power Ops IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2016
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2016
  • Gas
  • Oil

Operations detail

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Technology
Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
Age
54 years since 1972
1 attribute from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Balancing authority codeCISO

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Retired
December 2016
Capacity retired
49 MW
Generators retired
1
Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
MRGTNatural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine49 MWRetiredDecember 2016

Grid

EIA-860Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 (Schedule 2).
Balancing authority
CISO
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

  • Stated Unit MRGT scheduled to retire, 49 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

4 sources

Sources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 25 km
Projects within 25 km, nearest first.
ProjectKindAwayMW
EnerSmart Mesa Heights Sub Station Under construction Storage 6.0 km 3
L3 Harris San Diego Under construction Solar 6.6 km 1.6
Rancho Penasquitos Under construction Hydro 8.4 km 4.3
Pomerado Energy Storage, LLC Postponed Storage 13.8 km 6
Alvarado Hydro Facility Postponed Hydro 15.7 km 1.4
EnerSmart Murray BESS Postponed Storage 16.5 km 21
EnerSmart El Cajon BESS Postponed Storage 23.9 km 3

Sources EIA-860M

Sources

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