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The state of California has passed new laws that significantly limit the use of ocean water to cool power plants.  This type of cooling kills billions of marine life larvae every year and ruining ecosystems.  The AES power plant in Redondo has until 2020 to cut back over 90% of the ocean water it uses for cooling.  AES has filed their plan to rebuild the plant to comply with new requirements.  This gives the residents of the South Bay a once in a lifetime opportunity to rid our waterfront of this blighting eyesore.

The County of Los Angeles declared the power plant site blighted in 2003.  Redondo city documents have called it the major blighting influence on the King Harbor area.   Although once isolated from residents and other land uses, through the years, Redondo and Hermosa have allowed residential, hotel, restaurant, and retail uses up to the very boundary of the power plant property.  The power plant is not compatable with these uses.

The power plant rarely runs and is not required to supply our power needs.  The plant has a capacity of 1.3 mega watts – since 2000 the Southern California power grid has added over 30 mega watts of new capacity.

With the negative environmental impacts of the power plant and the new California law that requires them to stop using the current systems by 2020, residents have a once in a lifetime opportunity to rid ourselves of this unnecessary eyesore forever.  We hope you will join us in our crusade to rid Redondo of this blight.