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Re: Does Metrolink have back up plans if power goes off on the coast?
Author: Outsider
Date: 06-12-2013 - 13:36
jst3751 Wrote:
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> 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.
Uh-oh a poster who apparently has a clue.
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> 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.
Uh-oh a poster who apparently has a clue.
