Vernon Backup Generating Facility (VBGF)

The Vernon Backup Generating Facility (VBGF) would consist of a total of forty (40) diesel fired generators that would be used exclusively to provide up to 99 megawatts (MW) of backup emergency generation to support the Goodman Energy Park Data Center (GEP) when electricity from Vernon Public Utility (VPU) is unavailable to the GEP. The GEP would consist of two data center buildings (Building 1 and Building 2) north and east of the intersection of Vernon Avenue and Soto Street in the City of Vernon, California. The Building 1 address would be 3163 East Vernon Avenue and the Building 2 address would be 3049 East Vernon Avenue.  

The VBGF would not be electrically interconnected to the electrical transmission grid. The GEP would be supplied electricity by VPU through a new switching station on the GEP site that would be owned and operated by VPU (VPU Switching Station). The GEP would include a project substation that would be owned and operated by the project applicant GIC Vernon (Project Substation).  The Project Substation would be located immediately adjacent to the VPU Switching Station.  Thirty-eight (38) of the generators would each have a capacity of 3 MW and would provide backup of the electricity needs of the GEP’s critical operations. Two (2) generators would each have a capacity of 1 MW and would be used to support general office loads along with building and life safety services (house generators) for each data center building during an emergency outage.