Moss Landing Power Plant

  • Client: Vistra Energy
  • Location: Moss Landing, CA
  • Year of Completion: 2024
  • Contract Category: $5M-15M
  • Bid Schedule: 12 months
  • Actual Schedule: 12 months
  • Concrete (tons): 16,000 at 100% diversion
  • Steel (tons): 30,000 at 100% diversion
  • Totals (tons): 46,000 at 100% diversion
  • Categories: Industrial, Abatement and Remediation, Asset Recovery, Hard Demolition

Scope

  • The Moss Landing Power Plant is a natural gas-fired electricity generation plant and battery energy storage facility located at the midpoint of Monterey Bay, with large stacks that serve as visible landmarks throughout the region.
  • Units 6 and 7, constructed in 1964, provided 1,500 megawatts of generation capacity through the use of supercritical steam operating at 3,600 PSI.
  • Vistra Energy contracted FERMA to mechanically demolish two 230-foot-tall boilers at the site.
  • FERMA executed the demolition using a bottom-to-top mechanical method with specialty heavy
  • FERMA executed the demolition using a bottom-to-top mechanical method with specialty heavy equipment, rather than employing traditional tripping or implosion techniques.
  • This mechanical demolition approach enabled in-place processing, minimized stress on structural members, reduced risks associated with boiler weight on compromised areas, and limited personnel and property exposure to falling debris.
  • Asset recovery initiatives resulted in $8,300,000 returned to client
  • The project was completed on schedule, within budget, and without incident.