Calpine was to construct the 650-megawatt natural gas-fired Turner Energy Center in the town of Turner, southeast of Salem. However, after three years of delays and the request from Calpine for another year long postponement, the Energy Facility Siting Council of the Oregon Department of Energy decided on Friday to drop the plan.
We did not want the people of Marion County waiting at least another year for a decision. The siting process was not designed to last this long, Michael Grainey, director of the Department of Energy, said, according to Reuters.
San Jose, California based Calpine, which originally won the project in December 2001 and had been granted extensions three times, declined to comment on the decision by the state authority.
