Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy giant Sempra, announced Thursday it is moving forward on the third phase of a large wind energy complex in Baja California. Some 64 turbines will be erected at the Cimarron wind project, with capacity to generate about 320 megawatts of power under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Silicon Valley Power to supply ...
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The Anaheim Planning Commission Monday night gave its approval for Disneyland’s on-property expansion plans, the first of two needed votes to allow the company to grow its theme parks with new attractions and hotels. The project, dubbed DisneylandForward, would give Disney more flexibility to choose where it builds new theme park areas, hotels and dining, without expanding beyond its existing ...
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Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner will resume limited passenger rail service through San Clemente starting Wednesday, March 6. Emergency repairs continue to install a 160-foot long, 10- to 15-foot tall catchment wall at the base of a landslide that occurred in January, destroying a popular coastal pedestrian bridge and threatening the rail tracks. Passenger service has been halted through town since ...
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Del Mar is proposing to create a seven-member task force to monitor plans to reroute the train tracks off the fragile coastal bluffs and into a tunnel beneath the small city. The proposal will be discussed at Monday's Del Mar City Council meeting. The task force would include five voting members who are Del Mar residents and two non-voting members from the nearby Torrey Pines area of San ...
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MECCA, Calif. (AP) — When Limba Contreras moved to the desert community of Oasis, California, about 50 years ago, her family relied on a water cooler to keep temperatures inside their home comfortable. Other times, they sprayed each other with a hose outside. But when the heat topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (about 38 Celsius), the cooler was futile, and the hose was a temporary reprieve. “We ...
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Mar. 2—MARTINEZ — Contra Costa County officials will stop enforcing building codes that require most new buildings to be all-electric — at least for now. The about-face comes after a three-judge panel in April struck down Berkeley's first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, ruling that cities do not have the authority to prohibit the installation of natural gas plumbing in ...
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HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials plan to send debris and ash from the August wildfire that destroyed Lahaina town to Maui's central landfill. Maui County officials said Wednesday that they picked the permanent disposal site in Kahului over two others that are closer to Lahaina, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. The deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century killed 101 people and ...
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Arevon Energy, a solar and storage project developer, secured more than $1 billion in aggregate funding commitments for its Eland 2 Solar-plus-Storage Project in Kern County, California. The 374 MW (MWdc) solar project coupled with 150 MW/600 MWh of energy storage system is under early-stage construction, and the commercial operations are scheduled for the first quarter of 2025. The company ...
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Pacific Coast Highway closing during high tides or heavy rainstorms near the Bolsa Chica wetlands is a common problem for drivers in the area, and Caltrans officials say they are looking to address the flooding problems in the future. When asked if Caltrans had plans to address the flooding concerns along that stretch of road at a recent Huntington Beach City Council meeting, Caltrans District ...
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A $7.2 million “catchment wall” will be built at a landslide area in northern San Clemente to hold back the slipping hillside and get passenger train service running through to San Diego again. The California Transportation Commission has committed the funding to the Orange County Transportation Authority, which owns the railroad tracks, to build the wall and repair the area of slope that ...
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