- Bioenergy
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Bioenergy
- Retired
Salinas: location and 1 exact-grade project within 25 km. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Salinas
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 49% of 2009 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1986
- Net generation, 2009
- 5,989 MWh
- Location
- Monterey County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Recovery CorpSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
- Biomass and waste
Details
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- Technology
- Biomass source: “Landfill Gas”
- Age
- 40 years since 1986
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Retired
- December 2009
- Capacity retired
- 1.4 MW
- Generators retired
- 1
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAL1 | Landfill Gas | 1.4 MW | Retired | December 2009 |
Grid
Not in EIA-860Grid fieldsEIA-860 states no grid voltage or transmission owner for this plant: its annual file lists plants with a generator in the report year, so a plant that retired earlier is not in it.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 SAL1 scheduled to retire, 1.4 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
4 sourcesSources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- LBNL — A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024 (OEDI submission 8742)Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Around this plant
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|---|---|---|---|
| Crazy Horse Solar Project Postponed | Solar | 15.2 km | 2 |