State Panel Backs Electric Power Plant
A $100-million power plant for the tiny industrial city of Vernon has been recommended for state approval, a spokesman for the California Energy Commission said Friday.
Commission staffers recommended granting a license for the 134-megawatt, natural gas-fired plant, spokesman Chris Davis said.
Vernon officials want the plant to produce electricity for sale to industrial customers in Southern California. It would be built alongside an Art Deco building housing five diesel generators that have produced electricity since 1933.
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