The battle over a proposal to build a power plant on the OC Water District-owned Ball Road Basin site, which raged during the last months of 2013 but went into stand-by mode for much of this year, has quietly come to a close. On December 13, 2013, the OCWD Board of Directors narrowly voted to lease the 19-acres Ball Road ...

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 County Register has posted a story confirming that is the case: Competitive Power Ventures did not make it on Southern California Edison’s short-list of ...

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’ proposal for a 400 megawatt power plant on the Ball Road Basin next to Ball Road and the 57 freeway in Anaheim. Senator Lou Correa ...

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 its 2013 request-for-offers whether or not they’re projects have made the shortlist for consideration for contracts. If CPV’s offer doesn’t make the shortlist, it’s my ...

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. Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim. The topic is the controversial power plant that Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) proposes building on the Ball Road Basin, ...

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 city above the interests of the city as a whole. We saw that in action on December 9 when members of the OC Water District ...

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 power plant on the site. CPV needed the lease agreement approved in order to meet the December 16, 2013 ...

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 the eastern entertainment gateway to the city. Ball Road Basin Power Plant Support by a strong turnout of Stop the Power ...

“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 Register, December 10, 2013 That’s what is known as a distinction without a difference. You’d need an atomic microscope to split that hair. Let’s say ...

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 dozens of speakers, all of whom voiced opposition to the plant. Among them were Anaheim councilmembers Kris Murray and Jordan Brandman, Fullerton Councilwoman Jan ...