The facility was closed for planned reasons. The plant has approximately 545 megawatts (MW) of power generation capacity.

The facility is operated by Edison Mission. Chevron, an oil company in California and Edison Mission, a subsidiary of power company Edison International, each owns 50% of Sunrise Power.

The combined-cycle production station is situated in Fellows in Kern County around 130 miles north of Los Angeles and 35 miles southwest of Bakersfield, California. The facility comprises one 245MW steam turbine and two 150MW gas turbines. One MW power supplied by the plant can serve around 700 homes in California.

Edison International owns and operates approximately 14,000MW of generating capacity, transmits and distributes electricity to around 4.8 million customers in central and Southern California.