First thing I learned: This coal plant, 500 miles from Los Angeles, is the city's largest power source.
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That's despite Mayor Eric Garcetti shutting down gas plants back home. “This is the Green New Deal,” Garcetti told me in February: latimes.com/business/la-fi…
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It's called compressed air, and it would utilize an underground salt dome by the coal plant: latimes.com/business/la-fi…
The goal is to solve the "dunkelflaute" problem -- a German word meaning "dark doldrums," multi-day stretches without solar and wind. latimes.com/business/la-fi…
More detail in my story: latimes.com/business/la-fi…
LADWP plans to start construction on the gas plant this year. latimes.com/business/la-fi…
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It's a strategy lots of utilities are pursuing, which would be easier with more transmission: Take wind & solar from where it's cheap to where it's needed.
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Building more gas is definitely a gamble. See, for instance, this story from @1juliarosen: latimes.com/environment/st…
And: latimes.com/business/la-fi…
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