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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“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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