[1] The plant is bordered on the east by the northern terminus of the Pasadena Freeway and Blair International Baccalaureate School.

Pasadena Mayor William Waterhouse, upset with Edison's unsatisfactory service and high price for electricity, refused to pay the bill.

Pasadena citizens passed a $125,000 bond to build a power plant that would electrify street lights for less than what Edison charged at the time.

[5] On June 2, 2014, the Pasadena City Council endorsed the development contract to add GT-5, a new gas turbine, as part of a $132 million re-powering project at Glenarm.

B-3 was touted as the most-efficient unit in the country when it entered service in 1965, but advances in technology would make GT-5 almost twice as effective as the old steam boiler equipment.