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ISA Los Angeles Section Monthly Meeting  Southern California Edison Control Room and Peaker Plant Tour 
When:Tuesday, Sept 15, 2009. Meet at 5:30pm RSVP required by Edison. See below. Special Clothing: To tour the plant, all attendees must wear a hard hat, long sleeves, long pants and hard soled shoes with leather uppers. Other special instructions will be given when you RSVP. Where: Directions to the meeting place will be given when you RSVP. We will meet at SCE's Peaker Plant in Stanton at 5:30pm and tour the plant. Then we will drive to the SSID facility 10-15 minutes away in Westminster and tour the Control Center. Those who are interested will then head to a nearby restaurant for Dutch treat refreshments or dinner. RSVP RSVP is required for this tour. To RSVP, please contact Bill Campbell. About Barre Peaker Generating Unit Project In past years, high electricity demand during hot summers has shown that Southern California needs additional sources of electricity. To meet that need, SCE proposed to install five electric generating units called "peakers" within its service territory before summer 2007. Each peaker unit was to generate enough electricity to serve approximately 30,000 homes to increase power supplies to local communities and provide "voltage support" to the local distribution network. 
Each proposed peaker unit was planned to be connected to the local distribution grid where it would supply electricity to local homes and businesses. The peakers would also maintain local distribution voltages at normal levels during times of system strain or imbalance and would operate primarily during periods of high electricity demand, when high-voltage transmission lines are out of service, or when a generator unexpectedly goes offline.One of the five proposed peaker units was constructed at the Barre Substation in the City of Stanton. This unit is capable of generating approximately 45 megawatts of electricity. The unit can also be started without outside power from the grid, helping to further improve local reliability since it can be started even when all local power is out. The unit consists of a state-of-the-art General Electric (GE) gas turbine generator coupled with state-of-the-art emission controls. The emission control system consists of a selective catalytic reduction system (SCR) and an oxidation catalyst. About Southern California Edison An Edison International company, Southern California Edison is one of the nation's largest electric utilities, serving a population of nearly 14 million via 4.9 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central, Coastal and Southern California. Source: www.sce.com. Future Events For more information about any ISA Los Angeles program or to suggest a future program, please contact the Program Chair. For more information about any training course or to suggest a topic, please contact Paul Franklin. Sept 30 - Multimeter Training Course, Part 2 Oct 6-8 - ISA Expo Houston Oct 20 - Control Valves Program Oct 27 - Automation OC Expo & Oktoberfest Nov 17 - Wireless Program Dec 12 - Christmas Cruise Jan 19 - LabVIEW® Program Feb 18 - Instrumentation 2010™ Expo & Training Mar 16 - Flow Monitoring Progrm Apr 20 - Serial Communication May 18 - Analyzer Program Jun 15 - Level or Safety Valves Program |