But various factors make that seem unlikely. Design, engineering, construction and testing take several months. An effort begun last year to issue plant permits within four months led to approval of only one 50-megawatt plant at San Francisco International Airport.
Officials there say the deal is collapsing.
The California Energy Commission approved two projects, and five more are being reviewed, for a total of about 500 megawatts. There s a lot of hurdles. . . . The state reserved a cavernous auditorium at an Ontario hotel March 29 for what was billed as a workshop and energy fair. About 50 potential developers, consultants and sellers of power turbines attended. People can t seem to move, said Los Angeles consultant and developer Bob Hoffman, who attended the conference to sell a Japanese turbine that could power a peaker plant.