I called Joe Guerra's office, mayor's budget&policy chief, this morning but got voice mail. I prepared some numbers just on the off chance I got to speak to him. He was quoted in the SJ Business Journal article of July 26, 1999 "Of course, we can't run the Ciscos in the area without sufficient energy, and we need substantially more power for the valley," said Mr. Guerra, noting the unwelcome alternative is increasing the amount of towers on land and numbers of huge wires running overhead. Placing the power plant near PG&E's substation makes environmental and economic sense, especially as the natural gas line is in place, requiring only about 100 feet of line to connect the two.
200MW powers 200,000 Households ( from SJMN)
25MW powers 25,000 Households ( south coyote residential plan)
----FYI----200KW powers 200 Households ( current long term fuel cell)

CISCO 19 buildings 3.3million sq ft 65MW - 12MW = 53MW peak ($5.2M rebate from PG&E for effecient AC units gave them the -12MW figure) data from PG&E for North San Jose campus.
CISCO Coyote 7 million sq ft (from Cisco press release) calculates out to 112MW

Total Coyote new requirement = 137MW
New Moss Landing Power Plant project 600 to 800MW

Spare 463MW

The numbers do not add up to a requirement for MEC. Tell everyone you know.

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Tim Alton