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Operating one of the youngest predominantly natural gas-fired electric generation plant fleets in the nation, California-based Calpine Corp. is tying its strategic future directly to the combination of the climate change-driven shift away from coal and the increasingly abundant domestic supplies of shale gas, CEO Jack Fusco said during a fourth quarter and year-end 2009 earnings conference call Wednesday.

Operating one of the youngest predominantly natural gas-fired electric generation plant fleets in the nation, California-based Calpine Corp. is tying its strategic future directly to the combination of the climate change-driven shift away from coal and the increasingly abundant domestic supplies of shale gas, CEO Jack Fusco said during a fourth quarter and year-end 2009 earnings conference call Wednesday.

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