Edhat StaffSource: Environmental Defense Center
Today, the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) celebrates another critical victory in efforts to stop a fourth polluting fossil fuel power plant from moving forward along the coast of Oxnard. The California Association of Independent System Operators (“CAISO”) Board voted this afternoon to adopt a new transmission plan that eliminates the need for building NRG’s proposed 270 MW gas-fired Puente Power Plant. CAISO voted to approve the stringing of a fourth transmission line to deliver electricity to the Moorpark area that is part of multi-faceted solution to meet local area needs without developing additional fossil-fuel resources.
For more than three years, EDC, along with our clients (the Sierra Club Los Padres Chapter and Environmental Coalition of Ventura County) participated in hearings, testified, and submitted overwhelming evidence to the California Energy Commission demonstrating Puente’s impacts to coastal wildlife and wetlands were underestimated, unmitigated, and not necessary to meet local energy needs. Although the Energy Commission issued a letter last fall indicating its intent to deny Puente, the Project application is officially suspended until May 1, 2018. CAISO’s adoption of this new transmission plan leaves no room for NRG’s failed fossil fuel project.
Bravo!
I believe they are also closing down the units at Mandalay Bay, and also a small generating unit in Goleta. We will now be at the mercy of our transmission facilities for our power. We almost lost them in the Thomas Fire. I remember that last winter PGE had to move in a bunch of mobile generators into SB to make sure they could deliver power during a disaster. Are those still available? Hopefully these moves are all part of a well-thought out energy redundacy plan prepared by competent officials. What are the chances of that?
Please explain to the electric car advocates what the mobile generators burn for fuel