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Russell City Energy Center

Dusk shot of the Russell City site with a variety of excavators, cranes and light plants in operation with heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) units in the background. Dusk shot of the Russell City site with a variety of excavators, cranes and light plants in operation with heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) units in the background.

Delivering Efficient and Environmentally-Friendly Power to the Bay Area

Russell City - Concrete steel and formwork in the foreground, heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) units in the center background, steam turbine to the right.

Bechtel was the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the 620-megawatt Russell City Energy Center near the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. 

The natural gas-fired, combined-cycle facility, which uses advanced emissions-control technology, is more efficient and significantly cleaner than plants using old technology. The Russell City facility is helping repower Northern California’s antiquated generating infrastructure. 

Owned by Calpine Corporation and GE Energy Financial Services, the power plant became operational in 2013. 

Perspective view looks down on the facility for Russell City. Rows of piping are in the foreground. Several cranes rise above the jobsite.

Inside the Project

The facility uses the most advanced emissions-control technology available today for a natural gas-fired power plant. The plant conserves water by using reclaimed wastewater from the city of Hayward’s Water Pollution Control Facility for all cooling and boiler ‘makeup’ (to replace water that was lost in boiler operations).

This environmentally responsible process prevents up to 4 million gallons (15 million liters) of wastewater from being discharged into San Francisco Bay each day.

Image Gallery

Perspective view looks up at lighted steel structures. Cranes rise above the structures at Russell City. A purple evening sky is overhead.
Dusk shot of Russell City and Liebherr 1280 crane to the left, with heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) #2 to the right.
A steel structure at Russell City is lit up against a pink sky. A stack is in the center. A tank is on the left.

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