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Three California Gas Plants to Shut Thanks to State’s Green Push


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Mar 10, 2018 by Brian Eckhouse

(Bloomberg) 

The Golden State is increasingly inhospitable to fossil-fuel power plants.

In the latest development, NRG Energy Inc. plans to shutter three old gas-fired power plants in California, according to a Sierra Club statement Friday. The plants are operated by the company’s GenOn unit, which is expected to be spun off under a bankruptcy agreement that was approved last year.

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GenOn intends to shut down the Etiwanda plant in Rancho Cucamonga as of June 1. The Ormond Beach facility in Oxnard is slated to go dark as of Oct. 1 and the Ellwood site in Goleta is set to close as of Jan. 1 of next year. An NRG spokeswoman declined to comment Friday.

California regulators are pushing utilities to ditch gas-fired power plants for clean-energy projects amid a state-wide effort to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2030 from 2015 levels. In January, the California Public Utilities Commission approved an order that requires PG&E Corp., the state’s biggest utility, to change the way it supplies power when demand peaks, by using batteries or other non-fossil fuel resources.

“Closing these plants is more proof that clean energy is driving gas out of California,” Evan Gillespie, a Sierra Club campaign manager, said in the statement.



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