Schedule
On December 16, 2009, the California Energy Commission approved the Avenal Energy project. Appropriate documents have also been filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. The project is expected to be fully permitted by early 2011.
Plans call for beginning construction in mid-2011, with commercial operation beginning mid-2013.
Click here for California Energy Commission Notice of Decision approving the Project