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LADWP briefs committee on LA100 plan; stresses transmission and in‑basin generation for reliability
Summary
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power told the City Council Energy and Environment Committee on June 17 that reaching the city's LA100 goals will require large new renewable procurements, transmission buildouts and retaining dispatchable in‑basin generation to preserve reliability during prolonged low‑renewable periods.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials updated the City Council Energy and Environment Committee on Tuesday, June 17, on the agency's LA100 strategic plan to reach 100% clean energy by 2035, saying the utility must add renewable power purchase agreements, expand transmission into the LA Basin and retain some dispatchable in‑basin generation to prevent blackouts in extreme events.
The presentation by Nermina Rucic O'Neil, Director of Power System Planning at LADWP, and Arash Saeedi, Director of Regulatory Compliance, summarized recent procurements, transmission projects and distributed‑energy work and described risks to the timeline, including supply‑chain and federal policy uncertainty. "Dispatchability is very important to LA Basin," Rucic O'Neil said, noting that long‑duration stressed periods require firm generation when renewables and short‑duration storage are unavailable.
The LA100 study produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's NREL and local modeling identified several pathways to decarbonize. LADWP said it expects…
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