The California Public Utilities Commission last week approved extending the operational life of an AES power plant in Huntington Beach for up to three additional years. The matter next goes to State Water Resources Control Board for consideration.
The coastal gas plants, which suck up billions of gallons of ocean water each day, are supposed to close in 2020.
She encouraged electricity companies “to do what is being asked of them and move more quickly in their procurement” of additional power capacity. The extension, she added, will ensure reliability of the power grid and help bridge the transition as California moves toward fulfilling its goal of havingPeak energy use in the state has shifted to later in the day and the period of heaviest use has moved from August to September, “which increased the challenge to meet that peak,” Randolph said.
The “overall trend in California is that natural gas fire generation is, in fact, declining,” Randolph added, and “will continue to decline between now and 2030, but ... the reality is that those resources are needed.”
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