Redondo Beach Energy Project Alternatives

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Redondo Beach Energy Project Alternatives

• Jeanine Hinde and David Vidaver
• Jeanine.Hinde_at_energy.ca.gov
• David.Vidaver_at_energy.ca.gov

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Alternatives to the Proposed Project
Section 15126.6 of the California Environmental
Quality Act Guidelines, Consideration and
Discussion of Alternatives to the Proposed
Project, guides preparation of the alternatives
analysis. The State CEQA Guidelines require an
analysis of alternatives to the proposed project,
or to its location, which would feasibly attain
most of the basic project objectives but would
avoid or substantially lessen any of the
projects significant impacts.
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Alternatives to the RBEP PSA

• Preliminary Alternatives Analysis
• Describes the CEQA requirements for an analysis
  of alternatives.
• Lists the project objectives identified by the
  project applicant.
• Discusses historical use of the RBGS site for
  electrical power generation.
• Reviews and analyzes the potential feasibility of
  off-site alternatives at brownfield sites in the
  West Los Angeles subarea of the LA Basin local
  reliability area.
• Analyzes an alternative site configuration to
  determine whether it could avoid or
  substantially lessen any of the projects
  significant impacts.
• Analyzes retrofit alternative scenarios that
  could potentially achieve compliance with the
  State Water Boards once-through cooling policy.

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Alternatives to the RBEP PSA

• Preliminary Alternatives Analysis (continued)
• Evaluates the potential to increase electrical
  generation at other AES power plant sites as an
  alternative to the proposed project.
• Evaluates alternative gas-fired technologies.
• Evaluates the No-project Alternative consisting
  of shut down of the RBGS by the end of 2020 with
  no demolition or construction at the site for the
  foreseeable future. Compares the impacts of the
  No-project Alternative to those of the proposed
  project.
• Concludes that compared to the proposed project,
  the No-project Alternative would increase certain
  environmental impacts and avoid construction
  impacts. However, the No-project Alternative
  would not meet the basic project objectives.

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Alternatives to the RBEP FSA

• Draft Updated and Augmented Alternatives
  Analysis
• The FSA will include an analysis of preferred
  resources as potential alternatives (energy
  efficiency, demand response, energy storage,
  renewable central station and distributed
  generation).
• Given the time that will have passed between
  publication of the PSA and FSA, staff will update
  other content as necessary.
• Staff will broadly interpret the project
  objectives to allow full analyses of potentially
  feasible alternatives (e.g., an alternative with
  less capacity).