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Sunlaw Proposes Power Plant in Vernon

By Chris Kraul
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Hoping to capitalize on the deregulated electricity market coming soon to California, Sunlaw Energy Corp. is proposing to build an 810-megawatt, natural-gas-fired power plant in Vernon that would start operation in 2002. The $450-million plant would generate about one-third as much energy as San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and would sell its electricity into the statewide Power Exchange starting up next year. Sunlaw is an independent power producer that operates a 64-megawatt cogeneration facility in Vernon that sells energy to Southern California Edison. The company, based in Vernon, also makes air-pollution-control catalysts for industry. The new power plant would be financed by Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, whose largest investor is John Hancock Life Insurance of Boston.

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Chris Kraul

Chris Kraul covered South America for the Los Angeles Times from his base in Bogota, Colombia. He joined the paper in 1987 and was business editor of the San Diego edition until it closed in 1992. He then began covering the border and Mexican economies until his assignment to The Times’ Mexico City bureau in 2001. He reopened the paper’s Bogota bureau in 2006. He has also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida and also has been a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Business Journal.

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