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Re: Does Metrolink have back up plans if power goes off on the coast?
Author: jst3751
Date: 06-12-2013 - 10:43
Please do not make a statement if you do not know all the facts.
Yes, the permenant shutdown of San Onofre will indeed have an impact. Last summer problems were avoided when the 2 generators at Huntington Beach, which had been shut down and were supposed to be permanantly shutdown were temporarily brought back on line. However, those 2 generators at Huntington Beach are indeed permenantly shutdown and can not physically be brought back on-line even temporarily as they are already being dismantled I believe.
Compounding the problem for Orange County and San Diego County is that there are no new plants, even peaker plants, that have been built in that area in the last 5-8 years. There is a peaker plant in the San Fernando Valley, and there is a new peaker plant coming on line this summer in the San Gabrial Valley. But by the nature of them, peaker plants are not designed to provide electricity to areas distant from them, even though in a way they are tied into the overall grid, but only if the substation they are connected to can backfeed into the main transport lines, which I am not sure that they can.
Yes, the permenant shutdown of San Onofre will indeed have an impact. Last summer problems were avoided when the 2 generators at Huntington Beach, which had been shut down and were supposed to be permanantly shutdown were temporarily brought back on line. However, those 2 generators at Huntington Beach are indeed permenantly shutdown and can not physically be brought back on-line even temporarily as they are already being dismantled I believe.
Compounding the problem for Orange County and San Diego County is that there are no new plants, even peaker plants, that have been built in that area in the last 5-8 years. There is a peaker plant in the San Fernando Valley, and there is a new peaker plant coming on line this summer in the San Gabrial Valley. But by the nature of them, peaker plants are not designed to provide electricity to areas distant from them, even though in a way they are tied into the overall grid, but only if the substation they are connected to can backfeed into the main transport lines, which I am not sure that they can.
