The Mirant Corp. proposed to expand the plant it acquired from PG&E in 1999 at 1201 Illinois St. in San Francisco's Potrero District into a 540-megawatt plant to provide electricity to the city. Mirant has submitted the proposal to the California Energy Commission, which has the final word on whether to allow the expansion to take place.
Under CEC rules, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission must forward its recommendations to the state energy commission, which must take the suggestions into account before it makes a final assessment.
At their meeting in Oakland this afternoon members of the BCDC found that the Mirant Corp. has not done enough to make sure their plans conform to the McAteer-Petris Act, which prohibits bay fill whenever alternatives are available.
The commission was especially concerned with Mirant's proposal to cool the electric plant's generators by tapping and then releasing as much as 228 million gallons of Bay water a day. Commission staff reports concluded that Mirant could use on-land cooling towers or a hybrid alternative instead.
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