The developer of a proposed gas-fired power plant in Hermiston has apparently decided to pull the plug and withdraw its state-issued permit with Oregon’s Energy Facility Siting Council. The ...

Officials at Perennial Power Holdings say the plant would produce up to 412 megawatts.

The Hermiston Power Project will become an increasingly valued energy resource as the region’s antiquated plants retire and power demand continues its long-term growth trend.” ...

HERMISTON, Ore. — The Feb. 22 fire that destroyed the Shearer’s Foods processing plant in Hermiston has forced the company to lay off all of its local employees.

HERMISTON -- An energy developer has proposed a power plant at Hermiston designed to ramp up when the breezes die down and the region's burgeoning wind turbine generators go slack.

Another Sumitomo subsidiary, Perennial Power Holdings, is a co-owner of the Hermiston Generating plant, a 474-megawatt natural gas power plant adjacent to the Wind Chaser project site.

The Hermiston Fire Department reported there were no calls made regarding the power outage, but both the Fire Department and Hermiston Police were without power during the outage. Emergency calls ...

HERMISTON, Or. — Two weeks after a fire devastated a Tri-Cities area food plant, the company has announced it will be laying off all of the site's employees.

Boiler explosion at Shearer’s Foods south of Hermiston, Ore., started a fire that has closed highways threatening homes, a truck stop and hotel with evacuation. The plant makes potato and corn ...

PG&E National Energy Group Inc. has signed an agreement to sell one-half of its 50 percent interest in the Hermiston Generating plant to Sumitomo Corp. and Sumitomo Corp. of America.

Dan Serres with the environmental group Columbia Riverkeeper drove to Hermiston on his birthday last month to investigate — and try to stop — a controversial natural gas plant project that has ...

The regional water system has three primary consumers: the Hermiston Generating Plant, Calpine s Hermiston Power Project and Shearer s Foods, said Roy Bicknell, Hermiston water department and ...