Solar power is becoming competitive with natural gas — and is already cheaper than new fossil fuel capacity in many countries.
Add storage to the mix, and the costs come down even more. That’s what the Clean Coalition has found in a recently released study, which showed that solar+storage would be cheaper than two proposed gas plant projects in Southern California.
The proposal for the gas plants calls for building a new Puente Power Project plant and refurbishing the existing Ellwood Peaker Plant. Both are part of the Moorpark Subarea, which includes the cities of Oxnard, Santa Barbara, and Goleta.
