AES must amend application
AES power plant. Photo . The California Energy Commission has ruled that AES Southland’s application for certification to re-power its Harbor Drive plant lacks sufficient data to inform a final decision. The commission judged the application to be “data inadequate” at its meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday, Jan. 9. On Dec. 19, the City of Redondo Beach sent a letter drafted by environmental lawyer David Waite of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP to the California Energy Commission (CEC) highlighting areas of the AES Southland application that purportedly failed to address critical components of the proposed project. CEC staff filed their own letter in response on Dec. 20, echoing the city’s concerns that the application does not contain enough information. The staff letter calls attention to just six areas of the application that are perceived to be “data inadequate,” whereas the city’s letter takes issue with almost every subhead of the application. The CEC on Wednesday considered both the recommendations of the City of Redondo Beach and its own staff, ultimately ruling in their favor. Now, AES Southland is required to file a more detailed and data-intensive version of its…
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