SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Environmentalists and neighborhood groups Monday urged the Board of Supervisors to scrap plans to build four new power plants in the southeast corner of San Francisco.
The board was scheduled to consider a plan next week to shut down an aging and heavily polluting plant near Potrero Hill and replace it with four smaller, cleaner burning generators, three near Potrero Hill and one at the airport.
But critics who gathered on the steps of city hall in the morning, including several supervisors, said the new power plants won't be clean enough. They would rather the city build wind and solar plants.
The agency that oversees the state's electrical grid is demanding that the city create a reliable source of power generation before it closes the 27-acre Potrero power plant.
In 2006, the Hunters Point Power Plant was closed as part of a plan to phase out aging power facilities in the city.
(Photo of Potrero Power Plant from Mirant Corp.)
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