Los Angeles has fully exited coal, city officials announced this week.
The Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Utah, the last remaining source of coal-fired electricity serving the nation’s second-largest city, ceased operations just before Thanksgiving. The two-unit plant had roughly 1,800 MW of capacity when both units were online and supplied about 11 percent of Los Angeles’ electricity as recently as 2024.
LADWP continues to receive electricity from a new natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC) project completed this year at the IPP site, part of a modernization effort known as “IPP Renewed.” The new units are designed to run on natural gas blended with up to 30 percent green hydrogen, with a long-term plan to transition to 100 percent green hydrogen. LADWP expects hydrogen to be introduced into the fuel mix in 2026…