California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures

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.

Can we bring it in from China there smart enough to produce cheap power? Here's a thought build a super floating battery charge it up in China plug it in in California. I think Bill Gates thought of that.

I might suggest all the liberal greenies who claim to know it all simply go without electricity. That’s what they deserve.

You get what you vote for.

So... don't get rid of the nuclear plant. Just upgrade it. It's way cheaper if a lot of the infrastructure is already in place.

What? Electricity shortages? Please tell me wsj got this one wrong

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Maybe don’t close your power plants?

New age, new energy source

ocean wave power generation....renewable 24/7!

If only there was an efficient and clean option available like nuclear

Upgrade vs getting rid of nuclear. The others are old techs

Wasn’t aware I work in a farm

From what?

Hey cali, Florida is full.. Don't come!

Nuclear is the answer...

The sunny state should bet on the Sun of course.

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