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Originally Posted by botsapper
SoCal's 'twin peaks' San Onofre plant is slowly shutting down. Excessive wear & tear, costs from strict environmental & regulatory standards and being on top of an active seismic region makes it difficult to support. Meanwhile our regional sweltering temps put more demands for more power production.
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Power outages and brown-outs was what San Onofre's owners and operators threatened in 2011 during the early stages of the effort to put an initiative on the 2012 ballot that would shut down the plant. Their claims were printed in the OC Register and the LA Times: official spokespeople predicted we'd see power failures during the summers if the plant was shut down. Then in Jan 2012 the accident at San Onofre forced regulators to shut it down unexpectedly. Although it has been off-line for nearly 9 months, we have had no such brown-outs this summer. It's dated, unsafe, and not nearly as necessary as the industry likes to claim. Let's keep it offline and use the sun that bakes us to cool us too.