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RESOLUTION NO. 15-6964
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING THE LICENSING
APPLICATION FOR A POWER PLANT IN REDONDO BEACH BY THE
AES CORPORATION TO THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA,
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Recitals.
1. The City of Redondo Beach has been the site of an electrical generation plant
since 1896, which is presently owned and operated by AES Redondo, LLC, a wholly owned
subsidiary of the AES Corporation, a global electrical generation and distribution business
headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and located at 1100 North Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach,
California.
2. The AES Corporation has filed an Application for Certification with the
California Energy Commission seeking authority to replace the existing electrical generation
facility with a 496-megawatt natural gas -fired, combined -cycle, air-cooled, electrical generating
facility.
3. This facility is located on a parcel adjacent to the border between the cities
Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. Therefore, the residents of Hermosa Beach will experience
noise, air quality and visual impacts from the proposed replacement facility similar to, if not more
severe than those experienced by the residents of Redondo Beach. The facility is directly adjacent
and upwind of a densely populated area - over 13,000 residents per square mile - and surrounded
by other incompatible uses such as hotels, office buildings, a 1400 slip boat harbor, two restaurants
and a senior living facility.
4. In recent years, significant environmental, economic and regulatory changes have
occurred that affect the electrical generation business in California and the AES Corporation's
Redondo Beach electrical generation plant.
5. The California Energy Commission, California Public Utilities Commission,
California State Water Resources Control Board, California Independent System Operator,
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California Air Resources Board, Southern California Air Quality Management District, California
Coastal Commission, California State Tidelands Commission and other governmental agencies are
or will be considering applications by the AES Corporation for continued permits to generate
electricity in future years at the Redondo Beach electrical generation plant.
6. The City of Hermosa Beach recognizes the authority of Federal and State agencies
to consider and take final action on permits authorizing the AES Corporation to generate electricity
at the Redondo Beach electrical generation plant; however, the City of Hermosa Beach has serious
concerns about the lasting negative impacts on the health, safety and welfare of the community for
generations to come by building a new power plant that will run more often than the existing plant
currently does.
SECTION 2. The City Council does hereby oppose the licensing application submitted by
AES to the California Energy Commission to construct and operate a new electrical energy
generating plant in Redondo Beach and requests that the AES Corporation and appropriate
governmental agencies take the necessary actions to permanently retire the AES Redondo
generating station, remove the aged electrical production facilities and remediate the land.
SECTION 3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately. The City Clerk shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this Resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original
Resolutions; and shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the
proceedings of the City Council meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED
PRESIDENT of the City
ATTEST:
City Clerk
ADOPTED this 26th day of May, 2015.
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it and MAYQR of the City of Hermosa Beach, California
APPROVED AS&OFIORM:
ity Attorney
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH
I, Elaine Doerfling, City Clerk of the City of Hermosa Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 15-6964 was duly and regularly passed,
approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach at a Regular
Meeting of said Council at the regular place thereof on May 26, 2015.
The vote was as follows:
AYES: Barragan, Fangary, Petty, Mayor Tucker
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: DiVirgilio
Dated May 26, 2015
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