California’s Plan to Replace San Onofre Nuclear: Green Success or Natural Gas Giveaway? : Greentech Media: "In a recent issue paper, the Sierra Club lamented that the Pio Pico gas-fired plant in Carlsbad, California that NRG Energy is planning to build for SDG&E “could fill the entirety of its proposed all source allocation." And, as Vote Solar notes, the larger the all-source procurement, the higher the likelihood that big gas-fired plants will win out in cost-effectiveness terms.
CPUC Commissioner Peter Florio acknowledged those concerns in Thursday’s commission meeting. “We all wish we could replace these resources with 100 percent preferred resources. But the simple reality is that no one in the world has been able to manage a complex grid like we have in Southern California without some fast-responding gas resources,” he said."
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