California needs to rapidly transition to renewable energy — without plunging cities into darkness and sparking a backlash to solar farms, electric cars and electric stoves. Sammy_Roth reports:
The findings: Between 10% and 15% of the state’s 40 gigawatts of gas power was typically unavailable during the high-demand evening hours. High temperatures contributed to some gas plants generating less than expected and others going offline entirely.
One of the turbines at Ormond Beach Generating Station in Oxnard suffered a higher level of “curtailments” — meaning the amount of energy production lost — than any other gas unit in California, Goggin found. Another Ormond Beach unit had the sixth-highest level of curtailments. Two turbines at Alamitos Generating Station in Long Beach ranked in the top 15.
“The bottom line is that they’re poisonous,” said Ari Eisenstadt, energy equity manager at the California Environmental Justice Alliance. “We can’t as a society in 2023 keep saying that our only solution is something that we know factually, scientifically, to be poisonous, and that we know is disproportionately located in low-income communities of color. That is so clearly racist.
The Department of Water Resources is also required to submit its investment plans to yet another agency, the California Energy Commission, for approval. While it’s not entirely clear what would happen if the commission voted “no” — especially with the gas-plant contracts already signed — the discussion at last week’s commission meeting signaled a “no” vote is highly unlikely.
said she grew up in Ventura County near the gas plant and pursued a career in public policy to correct injustices like this one.
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