An excerpt on the Encina power plant from the ut:
CARLSBAD — The Carlsbad City Council approved a landmark deal Tuesday that officials said will help solve the region’s energy needs while ridding coastal North County of a notorious eyesore: the 60-year-old Encina Power Station.
The agreement allows NRG Energy to replace Encina and its 400-foot cooling tower with a more environmentally-friendly and less conspicuous 90-foot-tall “peaker” plant, and requires NRG to tear Encina down when the new plant opens sometime in 2017.
City officials said the deal, which came together quickly during the last few months, was prompted primarily by the unexpected retirement last June of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which had supplied much of the region’s power.
Read full article here:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/14/carlsbad-encina-power-peaker-plant-deal/
They’ll have to change the name of Cannon Road when there’s no more cannon.
They will have to expand the Desal plant too IMO.
More people and less rain.
I think they will eventually make watering lawns in SD county illegal.
It’s just a matter of time IMO.
Agreed – with the weather now desert-like, we’ll all have rock yards like in PS and Phoenix. A booming market for xeriscape specialists!
And don’t forget that LA developer Rick Caruso bought the land just on the other side of the 5 – not sure he’s finished his plans yet but I’d expect a mini-grove style mall. No more smoke stack, and no more strawberries. On the plus side, at least there’s plenty of room to increase the desalination plant (the plumbing that currently handles the cooling for Encina will remain and be used by the desalination plant – the new power plant is Natural Gas and won’t require once-through cooling like the coal).
Huh….I always thought the smokestack was a lighthouse.
I read it was already natural gas, no coal.
@Just some guy
Hey, now, that’s an idea! Let’s make it an actual lighthouse!
Funny, me & mine have been saying SoCal’s turning into Arizona. The drought continues…
Where will all the cell tower antennas relocate too? There will be cellphone coverage holes in Carlsbad if this happens.