Bay Area environmental and social justice organizations are demanding a halt to San Francisco's proposed highly polluting Peaker Power Plant Project. Also known as the Combustion Turbine Project, the plant is proposed to be built in Southeast San Francisco, right next to the Bayview Hunters Point community that is already overburdened with pollution.

The SFPUC revealed that peakers must run at least 18 years in order to pay themselves off and will be contractually allowed as much as 30 years of operation if necessary to pay off those costs. The critical flaw in this model is that in 2016, after the Department of Water Resources is no longer required to purchase electricity capacity from the peakers, the City and County of San Francisco will be fully on the hook for the remaining $110 million cost of the project with no guarantees of power purchasers. PG&E, the biggest such potential customer, has already said no, largely due to a new state mandate for it to cut its production of new fossil fuel projects.

Peaker Power Plant Now Has Deep Economic/Environmental Flaw | Video: 1 | 2 | 3 | In the Bayview Hunters Point we do not want any Combustion Turbines using fossil fuel