Russell City Energy Center
The Russell City Energy Center (RCEC) is a 619-megawatt natural gas-fired power station, which began operating in August 2013.The plant borders the City of Hayward Waste Water Pollution Control Facility and property owned by East Bay Discharge Authority near the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and the Hayward Regional Shoreline.The Russell City Energy Center is the nation’s first power plant to receive a federal air permit that includes a voluntary limit on greenhouse gas emissions.[2] A Federal Appeals Court, in May 2012, denied an environmental claim by nearby Chabot College.[6] The power train consists of two Siemens Westinghouse 501 FD Phase 2 combustion turbine generators (CTG), each 200 MW maximum and each followed by a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG).