A potential extended outage at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente will change the summer electricity outlook for local areas in Southern California.
The California Independent System Operator Corp. issued a summer grid forecast at the ISO Board of Governors meeting Friday, adding an important and urgent update to its annual 2012 Summer Loads and Resources Assessment.
The grid operator for the majority of California's electric transmission system cautions that if both SONGS units remain offline this summer, San Diego and portions of the Los Angeles Basin may face local reliability challenges.
