Posted on 07/04/2009 2:59:01 AM PDT by Libloather
Los Angeles will end use of coal-fired power
Thu Jul 2, 2009 4:33pm EDT
By Bernie Woodall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.
Consumers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest city-owned utility in the United States with 1.45 million electricity customers, will see higher power bills in the fight against climate change, he added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on Wednesday.
California does not have any coal-fired power plants, a leading contributor to greenhouse gas pollution, but the LADWP now gets 40 percent of its electricity from coal plants outside the state.
"LADWP will deliver 40 percent renewable power, with the remainder coming from natural gas, nuclear, and large hydroelectric," said Villaraigosa.
Coal and natural gas-fired power now account for 76 percent of the electricity delivered by the LADWP. By 2020, the LADWP expects to cut its carbon emissions by up to 60 percent from 1990 levels, according to the mayor's office.
Villaraigosa said the LADWP will meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its power from renewables by 2010.
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Democrats: Progress toward the Tenth Century.
Start back yard fires using old auto tires.
Wait til the wind is heading in a neighbors direction you don’t care for.
Texas will sell them some of our natural gas...at suitably inflated prices...since the dummies in CA refuse to use their own natural resources. Guess they don’t need the money.
Actually, unless the Hydro or "renewable" sources have dedicated lines directly to the utility's substations, they'll be pulling the excess off the grid without being able to trace the sources.
Sounds like a "plausible deniablility" masquerade to me and a scam on their consumers for a "feel good" moment.
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electricity customers, will see higher power bills in the fight against climate change, he added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on Wednesday
Obama and these idiots are going to suceed where the Islamofacist have failed. They are going to drive America back to the 7th century and without blowing up one single building.... Thanks assclowns.....
Going broke, what do we do???
Shut down a refinery, and close a coal powered power plant.
Makes sense to California I suppose.
What the hell , it’s basically what Obama wants to do in the rest of the country.
...added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on Wednesday.
Funny how all these politicians mandates these changes to finally come to fruition after they are out of office, letting those who follow them pick up all the pieces and deal with all the problems they themselves have created.
The same thing is going to happen with obamma and his minions, the democrats. Screw the country now with all of this added debt, with the bills coming due years down the road.
And then it will be the Republicans that will be called upon to fix it, again. The democrats messed everything up with their asinine ideas, and the Republicans have to fix everything.
Oh wait... there won't be any power left to turn off the lights.
Well, at least now when the last person leaves LA they won't have to remember to turn out the lights.....
Don't give him ideas.
Maybe the Constitution is a suicide pact after all.
Since electric power flows over a grid extending over the entire U.S. west of the Rockies, it is impossible to embargo or sort kilowatts by method of generation. Do they propose to disconnect from the grid or talk everyone else on the grid not to use coal?
We an end this now. Just start filing multi-billion dollar lawsuits against the enviro-weenies in friendly courts. Make them spend money to defens themselves.
That’s how they got us to this point. We need to reverset he trend.
Ok, let’s just criminalize coal and be done with it.
The Nazis had “race crime”, we’ll have “carbon crime”.
Makes just as much sense.
“But “costs to society” such as higher medical bills for lung-related diseases, including asthma, will drop.”
Got news for you. We, in Texas, will be happy to take that capacity that you guys are freeing up...so we’ll run the plant flat-out and spew the same junk into your neighborhood as before.
By the way, don’t count your chickens before they hatch...Cap and Trade is not law yet.
At the same time, the push for electric cars is highest in Kalifornia. This could prove to be fun.
Folks not leaving the state fast enough, eh?
I guess the crunch will come when people realize that the Left in power will really do what it says and make power expensive in the name of environmentalism.
Ready or not, here we go...Wheeeeeeeee!
Check your facts again- Texas has installed a parallel grid to handle the power from the new wind farms in the western part of the state. That power isn’t going anywhere else.
So yes, it is possible to embargo power from supposedly green sources.
I may be a cynic, but I’ll bet Villaraigosa has a vastly larger ‘carbon footprint’ than I do...
And I'm sure you can prove that - no?
I can’t see how that power can get to homes or industries on the existing grid without getting on the grid. Homes don’t have one set of green colored sockets and another of set of brown ones.
I don’t care what kind of bookkeeping shenanigans they are using, it’s just make believe. Electric power is completely fungible, you cannot distinguish a “green” kilowatt from a “brown” one.
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