Looking to avoid power blackouts, California may turn to fossil fuels, an energy source it's otherwise desperate to get rid of. The debate highlights the challenge some states are facing as they scramble to address heat waves fueled by climate change.
to meet demands during hot summer months since solar and battery storage projects that were meant to replace the lost capacity have been delayed.equivalent to what it takes to power 1.3 million homes on the summer’s hottest days. Newsom and lawmakers are desperate to avoid a scenario like August 2020, when hundreds of thousands of people temporarily lost power because there wasn’t enough supply to go around.
Beyond that, the water department would be able to build new energy storage and zero-emission generating stations. It could also spend state money buying power from coastal gas-fired plants that are set to close in 2023. The plants were first set to close in 2020. Likewise the department could keep buying power from the state’s last remaining nuclear plant if it stays open beyond its 2025 closure.
“If we don’t have these gas-powered plants to fire up when we need them you will not be able to flip the switch and get electricity,” she said. “The state is saying we need to rely on fossil power and they’re not fully admitting that it’s because of this lack of ambition,” said Alexis Sutterman, energy equity manager for the California Environmental Justice Alliance.Andrew Campbell, executive director of the Energy Institute at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, said the water department’s new authority to buy power is “very expansive and open ended” and something that “really deserves scrutiny.
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