The Kern Facility

According to PG&E's application, the Kern Facility is located in Bakersfield, California, and is the site of a power plant that was built between 1945 and 1950, and operated by PG&E from 1948 until 1985. The plant consists of two units, totaling 180 Megawatts, which burned natural gas and fuel oil. In 1985 the plant was placed in cold stand-by, and in 1994 the generation production assets were retired from PG&E's books. The approximately 147 acres of the land associated with the facility remain part of PG&E's generation rate base. PG&E proposes to retain 31 acres for transmission and distribution purposes. The portion of the Kern Facility at issue here consists of the power plant and related structures and approximately 116 acres of land, which PG&E seeks to sell to NAPG.