Vendor · Energy
Calpine
Contract actions with Calpine in California city council documents since 2022 — also written as CALPINE CORPORATION; Calpine Corporation.
Extracted automatically — check the source. These rows were read out of the cities' own agendas, staff reports and minutes by a language model (claude-haiku-5-5/v5) on 2026-10-20. Each amount links to the passage it came from and each row to the city's original file, which is the official record. Rows marked check had a problem the checks caught.
3actions
3cities
$73,500,000approved (recorded vote)
$148,500,000proposed, no vote in the index
2022-07-12first action in the index
Dollar totals add the amount each action states: an amendment's new total can repeat an earlier award, and annual amounts are counted once. Use them as a rough size, the rows for detail.
Actions
| Date | City | Item | Action | Amount | Size · price · savings | Outcome | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-17 | Palo Alto | Third Phase Agreement with NCPA for Calpine geothermal power purchase (Energy Risk Management Policy as it may apply to surplus electricity purchases) Power supply (municipal utilities) | Award | — | 10 MW of geothermal capacity, up to 87,600 MWh/year for Palo Alto PPA price of $79/MWh net benefit of at least $3/MWh | No vote recorded | packet · city original |
| 2022-10-25 | San Jose | Summary of Agreement Terms: CALPINE CORPORATION Nova battery storage capacity and charging/discharging rights (SJCE) check Power supply (municipal utilities) | Award | $148,500,000 | No vote recorded | other · city original | |
| 2022-07-12 | Santa Clara | Action to Delegate Authority to the City Manager to Either A) Enter Into a Third Phase Agreement With NCPA, or B) Complete Negotiations and Execute a Renewable Power supply (municipal utilities) | Award | $73,500,000 not to exceed | up to 100 MWs of generating capacity; up to 876,000 MWh annually effectively $79/MWh fixed (no escalator) indicative price | Approved Aye: Councilmember Watanabe, Councilmember Chahal, Councilmember Hardy,… | staff report · agenda · minutes · packet · packet |