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The editing on this piece is ... sloppy in the extreme: In a victory for the development, one of the nation’s largest utility companies, Southern California Ed
by dredmorbius 2y ago
The editing on this piece is ... sloppy in the extreme:
In a victory for the development, one of the nation’s largest utility companies, Southern California Edison, has agreed to purchase electricity from the development. The 15-year agreement will power the equivalent of 350,000 and begin when the development's first part is operational in 2026.
350,000 what?
(The answer is all but certainly "homes", which draw about 1.2 kW each, which puts this plant at about 400 MW output ... as is noted three 'graphs further down the article. Compare against a typical large nuclear power plant at 1--2 GW output per reactor.)
As you note there's also the Geysers plant in northern California (near Healdsburg) which has a nameplate capacity of ~1.6 GW, and a 53% capacity factor (that is, it's operational about half the time. Which would make the Met's article wrong on this point as well.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers>