BREAKING: Energy Company Drops Plans To Build Power Plant at Ball Road Basin Site
The battle over a proposal to build a power plant on the OC Water District-owned Ball Road Basin...
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Category: Ball Road Basin power plant
Ball Road Basin Power Plant Appears Dead For Now
This morning, I was hearing rumors that Competitive Power Venture’s proposal for a 400 megawatt power plant on the Ball Road Basin was not selected by Edison from among the responses to its request-for-offers. The Orange...
Read MoreLou Correa Urges Edison to Reject Ball Road Basin Power Plant
As I posted last week, tomorrow is when Southern California Edison is supposed to select from the power generation proposals it received to its recent Request for Offers (RFO). Among those is Competitive Power Ventures’...
Read MoreBall Road Basin Power Plant Update: Will Edison Select CPV Project?
One of the milestones on Competitive Power Ventures’s proposal to build a 400 megawatt power plant in OCWD-owned land in Anaheim arrives next week. On Thursday, January 30, Edison will notifies offerors who responded to...
Read MoreANA Hosts Community Meeting on Ball Road Basin Power Plant on January 8
The Anaheim Neighborhood Association is hosting a series of “Hot Topic” community meetings this year, each one focused on a front-burner issue for the city. The first meeting is January 8 at 7:00 p.m. at 319 N....
Read MoreThe Single-Member Council District Mentality in Action…Against Anaheim
One of the arguments against dividing Anaheim into single-member council districts is that it makes the council dynamic more parochial and fractious because councilmembers will tend to place the interests of their section of the...
Read MoreWhat’s Next for Ball Road Basin Power Plant Proposal
When the OCWD Board of Director’s voted 6-4 on December 9 to lease the Ball Road Basin to Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), it was the first step on a longer road CPV must travel to get permission to build a 400 megawatt...
Read MoreCouncil Approves Angels Negotiations and OCWD/Power Plant Items; Elects Kris Murray Mayor Pro Tem
The Anaheim City Council last night took an important step in the fight against the building of a 400 megawatt power plant on the Ball Road Basin, adjacent to the Anaheim Auto Center and very near residential neighborhoods and...
Read MoreSophistry and Misdirection at OCWD’s Board Meeting
“We are not approving a project, we are simply approving a lease,” water district board member Stephen Sheldon said as the meeting slipped past midnight at the agency’s headquarters in Fountain Valley. – Orange County...
Read MoreUPDATED: OCWD Board Approves Power Plant Lease
It’s getting close to the midnight, the public comments have wrapped up and now the 10-members of the OCWD Board of Directors are now making their comments and indicating how they’ll vote. [There were dozens and...
Read MoreOC Water District Votes This Evening on Whether To Lease Ball Road Basin for Power Plant
Tonight at 5:30 p.m., the Orange County Water District Board of Directors meets and will vote whether or not to lease the 20-acre parcel known as the Ball Road Basin to Competitive Power Ventures for the construction of a 400...
Read MoreOrigins of the “Unsolicited” Proposal for Power Plant at Ball Road Basin
The controversy over a proposal to build a power plant on an OC Water District parcel in Anaheim erupted seemingly out of the blue just a few weeks ago, it’s reasonable to ask where it all started? Especially since the...
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