AES Closes California Natural Gas-Fired Plant
January 4, 2024
AES Corp. has ended operations at one of the group’s four remaining natural gas-fired power plants in California. AES on Dec. 31 shut down its 1,300-MW Redondo Beach Generating Station, a facility that operated at less than full capacity in recent years, providing electricity to support the grid during periods of peak demand for power.
AES in early 2023 said it would close the power plant, which came online in 1954, by the end of the year. City officials marked the shutdown with a ceremonial flip of a switch on New Year’s Eve, marking the end of the plant’s operations.
