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recent months with the big-industry likes of Calpine and Constellation/ Exelon in the Geysers.� Calpine is one of the operators at the Geysers project in Sonoma and Lake counties. Constellation (which merged with Exelon in 2012) is not one of the operators at the Geysers or any geothermal project in California. In fact, geothermal is barely mentioned on their website (www.constellation.com). Constellation is headquartered in Pennsylvania.
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Editor’s response: You are correct. Constellation Energy, a subsidiary of the Exelon Corporation, does not have a geothermal power-production contract with Sonoma Clean Power as Tom Gogola reported. SCP says: “Constellation provides hydropower, wind, biomass and power from natural gas in our current contract. We are working on a second contract with them that would potentially supply power from
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additional sources as well. Calpine provides geothermal power in our current contract.� The Bohemian regrets the error.
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I may be wrong (“Saving Water in California,â€? Bohemian Facebook page, July 9), but I think California is relatively efďŹ cient and has become more so over recent years. The commercial water deals that big commercial farms (not new, smaller ones) have been getting, though, should be renegotiated and made more fair, IMO. In any case, we have no choice but to be much more efďŹ cient, since demand is still high and water supply is low.
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