Los Angeles Times Blog | By Kate Linthicum at Los Angeles City Hall | Link to article
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will be coal-free within 12 years under a plan announced Tuesday.
Under the plan, the utility would sell off one coal-fired power plant in Arizona and grant approvals for a second plant in Utah to be converted to run on natural gas. Los Angeles gets nearly 40% of its energy from the two aging plants, which environmentalists complain produce the same level of emissions as 2 million cars.
Evan Gillespie, who has been leading a campaign to transition the utility to cleaner energy on behalf of the Sierra Club, said the DWP’s plan will be a road map for other utilities seeking to get off coal.
