LA City Council votes to shift Scattergood power plant from natural gas to green hydrogen despite enviro opposition.
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday, Dec. 6 to move forward with a controversial plan to shift the Scattergood Generating Station, a power plant in Playa del Rey, to be powered by green hydrogen instead of natural gas.
“The easiest thing to do is to say, ‘Climate change is a crisis,”‘ Krekorian said at a committee meeting last week. “It’s a lot harder to figure out: How do we address climate change in a city of four million people and ensure that we can keep the lights on?” But environmental groups have pushed back. According to Food & Water Watch, hydrogen still produces emissions that can threaten the climate, would require more than 122 million gallons of water to power the plant and cost more than solar, wind or battery storage.
“Our communities can’t afford these false solutions,” said Annakaren Ramirez, the organization’s policy director. “We still don’t know where the water to produce hydrogen will be stored, where it will be made, any of the leak detection. We really just urge more time for these answers.” During Tuesday’s meeting, Bonin projected that the $800 million price tag would shoot up to $1 billion — money he said might be better spent on other resources. He also said the project would require an excessive amount of water.
But the 1% is important because “if we have wildfires, if we have earthquakes, it is that less than 1% that will keep the grid reliable and stable so that we can continue to charge our electric vehicles, and we can continue to power our homes and businesses — which will be fully electrified in the future,” Rondou said.
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