Deviation

There will be no deviation from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) “green path” to developing more reliance on renewable sources of electricity, deemphasizing its out-of-state coal-fired generation assets and hedging against fickle wholesale natural gas markets, according to the new head of the nation’s largest municipal utility. If the city-run utility could legally do it, long-term contracts for coal-fired generation from its Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Utah would be terminated, according to CEO David Nahai.