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The new power plant in Huntington Beach replaces plans that were approved by the commission in 2014.
Energy company AES won approval of an updated plan due to a new “power purchase agreement” with Southern California Edison that required different equipment. The new project replaces the plant at Pacific Coast Highway and Newland Street.
In 2014, the project was approved as a 939 megawatt power plant, but the new one will be an 844 megawatt power plant.
The amended plan will use less water and replace lost energy from the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station.
“The amended project will be air cooled, resulting in a substantial reduction in fresh water usage by using 20 percent of the fresh water used by the existing” power plant, according to a commission staff report. `In addition, the amended project will eliminate the use of seawater for (once- through cooling) and its potential impacts to marine life through impingement and entrainment.
The commission also approved the energy company’s 1,040-megawatt Alamitos Energy Center plant on the eastern border of Long Beach along the San Gabriel River.
–City News Service