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Update – August, 2019
Success! Thanks to all of the hard work, input, and continuous pressure from the community, City Council placed conditions on GWP’s proposal for Glendale’s energy plans, and asked staff to push for more renewable power, transmission, and other ways to reduce the need for natural gas generation. Thank you to all who played a part! The final decision is still to come, and we will continue to work toward our goal of NO NEW GAS in Glendale. We’ll need your participation in the coming months. We hope you’ll keep working with us as we continue to push for sustainable policy for our city!
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Commentary: The time has come to say ‘no’ to Grayson plan and ‘yes’ to renewable energy – READ
Los Angeles Times
State’s last gas-powered electric plant proposal pits Glendale utility against resident activists – READ
Los Angeles Daily News
Rally Precedes Council Meeting – READ
Crescenta Valley Weekly
Protests in Glendale Over the Grayson Power Plant Hold Lessons for NELA on Scholl Canyon – READ
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Concern Growing Over Glendale’s Air Quality – READ
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A VIRTUAL POWER PLANT is a network of residential solar panels + high-capacity batteries that generates and stores excess clean energy to be accessed by Glendale’s power grid during peak energy needs.
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This article on VPPs is pretty technical, but if you scroll to the second half they talk about Sunrun's work with LADWP and quote both Luis Amezcua and Jim Caldwell who have been heavy lifters for us with Grayson. The VPP concept is really getting ready to take off. The next stage is when they start to connect to car chargers, smart meters, and smart appliances that can be manipulated to provide reliable services that mimic a gas peaker plant but have the added feature of being able to target specific nodes within a regional distribution system so they don't get overloaded and explode like the one that forced GWP into rolling black outs recently.
www.utilitydive.com/news/hollywoods-next-star-could-be-virtual-power-plants-as-ladwp-closes-out-n...
Hollywood's next star could be virtual power plants as LADWP closes out natural gas
Power plant-scale VPPs are not in operation but pilots and proposals are about to get big tests.URGENT ACTION! This affects us, because if we have LESS PACKAGING that is NOT recyclable coming from UPSTREAM- we have less crisis to deal with in our city. Please support #AB1080 and #SB54 TODAY. It's ready for a vote TOMORROW!
Let's get this bill DONE! The plastics industry is making a last minute ditch effort to stop it.
Call Governer's office at: Phone: (916) 445-2841
If you are in Autum Burke's office (Venice), please call her Sacramento Office: Tel: (916) 319-2062.
For those in Long Beach/San Pedro area: we need calls to Patrick O'Donnell's office TODAY. Tel: (916) 319-2063
These are both moderate Dems who are swing votes on this monumental bill. So if you know folks in those areas, please ask them to call!
www.kqed.org/science/1947132/california-bill-puts-recycling-onus-on-plastic-manufacturers-theyre-...
California Bill Puts Recycling Onus on Plastic Manufacturers. They’re Not Happy About It
California is considering a first-in the nation attempt at requiring plastic manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their products.Glendale Environmental Coalition was proud to stand up with the hardworking activists from Food & Water Watch - California Sunrise Movement Los Angeles SoCal 350 Climate Action Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling at this week's LA County Department of Water & Power commission meeting in support of THREE things: carbon-free energy projects, union workers, and environmental justice for the communities at the front lines of fossil-fuel pollution.
In a big win for carbon-free energy projects in LA County - LADWP commissioners unanimously approved a contract (that will now be forwarded to LA City Council) to build the Eland Phase 1 & 2 Solar and Battery Storage project. GWP will have a piece of this - something in the realm of 25 mw according to previous submitted reports to LADWP. The project is historic for it's record low solar/battery storage pricing.
Sammy Roth's LA Times article gives a terrific background of this and related issues as CA moves towards it's goals of 100% non-carbon energy by 2045. As you can see in this article, those goal posts are being pulled forward by Los Angeles- closer to the 2030's. How will we and they get there? This article outlines some of the pathways and challenges ahead.
Roth featured photos of the hard-working activists that are keeping the pressure on behind the scenes! Nothing is possible until you say it needs to be....then people start to make things happen. This is one big reason that we need annual renewable energy goals here in Glendale - to guide GWP year by year so that we don't have dips and peaks, but rather a steady climb. Goals that could by laid out in a "Carbon Action Plan" or "Climate Action Plan" or in an update to our "Greener Glendale Plan".
"Under the 25-year deal with developer 8minute Solar Energy, the city would buy electricity from a sprawling complex of solar panels and lithium-ion batteries in the Mojave Desert of eastern Kern County, about two hours north of Los Angeles. The Eland project would meet 6% to 7% of L.A.'s annual electricity needs and would be capable of pumping clean energy into the grid for four hours each night.
The combined solar power and energy storage is priced at 3.3 cents per kilowatt-hour — a record low for this type of contract, city officials and independent experts say, and cheaper than electricity from natural gas."
www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-10/ladwp-votes-on-eland-solar-contract?fbclid=IwAR1EUCr...
Los Angeles OKs a deal for record-cheap solar power and battery storage
The Eland solar contract had been delayed due to concerns raised by the city electrical workers union.
