California is racing to secure large amounts of power in the next few years to make up for the impending closure of fossil-fuel power plants and a nuclear facility that provides nearly 10% of the state’s electricity
Southern California Edison to bring more than 14,000 megawatts of power generation and storage capacity online in the coming years, an amount equal to roughly a third of the state’s forecast for peak summer demand.
“What changed dramatically…is we have had significantly bigger and more West-wide heat waves than ever before,” Mr. Randolph said. “Those aren’t built into our planning standards.” At the time, state officials played down the impact on supplies, saying they had a decade to procure power. Diablo Canyon’s two nuclear generating units, which provide a combined 2,250 megawatts of electricity, are now set to close in 2024 and 2025.
California’s grid operator, known as Caiso, called on residents to conserve power several times this summer andto buy additional supplies from regional producers to reduce the risk of blackouts. The state also recently added four temporary natural-gas generators at power plants to help alleviate the shortage.
Fong Wan, PG&E’s senior vice president of energy policy and procurement, said he anticipates the build-out of batteries will help alleviate the supply crunch substantially in the coming years. A longer-term challenge, he said, will be the development of storage capable of supplying power for many hours. Most large-scale batteries supply power for four hours at most, withA power plant in Huntington Beach, Calif.
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