Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - power plants

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1952-1955

1290 Embarcadero Road
Morro Bay, CA 93442-2042

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The plant was bought by Duke Energy in July 1998; plans for a $800 million addition and replacement of the 49-year-old Morro Bay Power Plant was passed by the State of California Energy Commission in August 2004; the plant output would be raised from 1 megawats to 1.2 megawatts; in the new plan, the huge smokestacks would be removed;

PCAD id: 2713