Talk:Calpine

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Is this entry a little short of useful information? The timeline shows a meteoric rise of Calpine's fortunes, its generating capacity (MW), its IPO and share price rise, and nowhere does it explain where all the debt came from, why it couldn't be serviced, why if the company has as many assets as stated that assets could not be liquidated to satisfy debt, why the market reached near zero confidence in the company, etc, etc. Instead the grand timeline of achievements is summed up with files for bankruptcy and delisted for low share price. How about someone with knowledge of the company filling in some meaningful information? — unsigned entry by 69.61.172.213 03:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is a little short of useful information, and that's why it's tagged as a stub. I had gathered the basic time line for another project, and since there was no article on Calpine back then I started this one. It's not entirely useless, since you seem to have derived the basics of the company's fortunes from the "grand" timeline. If you want a full corporate report you can pay for one elsewhere. Please come back when you have time to contribute. —RandallJones 21:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

California Pine Box and Lumber Company, Later Calpine Corporation far predates the history given here. It is possible that this 1984 company has no relation to the former Calpine but it seems unlikely. Calpine had an operation in Lodi, CA in the 60s and there are records of it in the Sanborn Maps for Truckee in the 30s. In any event this "history" should at least acknowledge other entities of the same name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kharstin (talk • contribs) 14:09, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know a lot of what happened in the company, however I do know that Calpine used the same accounting firm that Enron used (Arthur Andersen). I am in no way making any allegations that Calpine acted in any unethical or unlawful manner in accounting practices, all I know is that their accounting firm was Arthur Andersen. As I was told by former employees, Calpine's mere association with Arthur Andersen was enough to send the company's stock plummeting and jacked up it's interest rate on debts and it even had some trouble obtaining new debt to manage its company. This was some of the reasons that lead to it's bankruptcy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:E:2200:7D:E46E:DB9:505C:18A (talk) 03:58, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

the economics section appears to be a list of unrelated facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.214.13.2 (talk) 00:52, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I removed the following set of plants. stand alone lists need citations to show they exist (and if they are notable, which i dont think is a problem wiht power plants). please add back in when references are found.

75.61.131.36 (talk) 16:16, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]