Energy company AES won permission Wednesday to build a pair of replacement natural gas-fired power plants in Long Beach and Huntington Beach.
California Energy Commissioners approved the company’s plans, which include construction of a 1,040-megawatt plant called the Alamitos Energy Center near Long Beach’s eastern boundary, on the bank of the San Gabriel River.
The company’s plans for Huntington Beach involve building a new beachside 844-megawatt plant, to be called the Huntington Beach Energy Project near the crossing of Pacific Coast Highway and Newland Street.
Commissioners had approved a larger version of the Huntington Beach plan in October 2014.