Dive Summary:

• Edison Mission Energy, a unit of Edison International, will launch its new 479-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired power plant in Southern California this June.
• The Walnut Creek plant comes at a crucial time for California’s grid suffering the loss of the giant San Onofre nuclear power plant in January 2012.
• Edison Mission, which filed for bankruptcy protection in December, will sell the new power in a 10-year purchase agreement to Southern California Edison, a subsidiary of Edison International.

From the article:
“The two reactors at Sothern California Edison's 2,150-MW San Onofre plant shut in January 2012 due to problems with their new steam generators.

SCE has proposed to restart the 1,070-MW Unit 2 and run it at less than full power for this summer, but that plan requires approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).”