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13/08/2015 5:01 am
13/08/2015 5:06 am
I know the place well Jerry. Reliant owned a 5-unit power plant nearby on Etiwanda Ave. It now belongs to NRG.
13/08/2015 5:18 am
Hi Robert... Have you seen it after the restore work?
It is just a cool looking building.
Lockhart TX is a very old town and they have many original structures still standing as they were in the '30s.
But to fit in down there, I'd need to buy some Ka-Boy boots, a bigger hat and be 20 years older.
Was the plant a combined cycle?
13/08/2015 5:36 am
I haven't seen the gas station since about 2009.
Will check it out next time I am down there.
Units 1&2 are gas boiler units circa 1953 (retired in 2004); Units 3&4 are larger gas boiler units circa 1963 (still running); Unit 5 is 8 SC GTs circa 1978 (retired in 2004).
13/08/2015 6:08 am
I hope you do Robert. And those old units put in their full time too.
Most of the gas booilers in HL&P's old area have all but gone and some of them weren't put on line until the '70s.
