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Supervisors hear technical disputes over proposed CT peaker project meant to permit Potrero shutdown
Summary
After hours of testimony, City departments and state agencies disagreed on whether three city‑sited combustion‑turbine peakers (plus one at SFO) are the only reliable way to remove Potrero/Moran from service. Climate and community advocates demanded fresh independent analysis and a fiscal feasibility review; the committee sent CT finance ordinances to the full board and tabled other procedural items for follow‑up.
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee devoted most of an extraordinary session to a technical and political debate over a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission proposal to site three combustion‑turbine (CT) peakers in the city and a fourth at SFO. The SFPUC argues the CT package, together with transmission work, is the only mechanism the California Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) will accept to remove the Potrero/Moran units’ Reliability‑Must‑Run designation and allow their retirement.
SFPUC General Manager Ben Harrington and power staff presented modeling and a financing plan that assumes Department of Water Resources (DWR) capacity payments through 2015 and later market or city uses for…
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