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San Francisco's last polluting power plant will be shuttered by the end of this year - ending a decade of debate over what to do with the Mirant Corp.'s Potrero Hill plant, one of the dirtiest in California.

 

City officials and the plant's owners reached an agreement last summer to shutter the 40-year-old fossil fuel plant on the southeastern waterfront. But the California Independent System Operator - charged with ensuring enough energy would be produced without the Mirant plant - didn't sign off on the closure until Tuesday.

 

"Five years ago, San Francisco had two of the most polluting power plants in California," Mayor Gavin Newsom said, referring to Mirant and the Hunters Point plant that closed in 2006. "At the end of this year, we will have no polluting power plants in this city."

 

Yakout Mansour, president and CEO of Cal-ISO, which oversees the reliability of California's electric grid, sent a letter to Newsom on Tuesday stating the organization is convinced the city will have enough energy without Mirant once transmission projects, including a new transbay cable undergoing testing and transmission improvements being made by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., come online.

 

Newsom said he expects Mirant to be closed by November.

 

Still, Mansour cautioned in his letter that eliminating a plant always poses concerns over blackouts, especially in the case of "natural emergencies." Newsom said the city will be no worse off following an earthquake or other natural disaster with the new transmission projects coming online.

Higher disease rates

 

The mayor added that the plant closure brings environmental justice to the city's southeast neighborhoods, which have suffered far higher rates of diseases including asthma and breast cancer than other, less polluted neighborhoods.

 

Newsom said he will announce in his State of the City address today that he envisions the land occupied by the plant becoming part of an "innovation corridor" including Mission Bay, the central waterfront, Potrero Hill and Bayview-Hunters Point. He said he wants the area to become a hub of businesses specializing in green technology, digital media, digital arts, online gaming, biotechnology and nanotechnology.

 

Parts of that are already under way, including a biotechnology hub at Mission Bay and the mayor's previously announced idea for a green technology center at the Hunters Point shipyard.

 

"It's very much symbolic of old San Francisco being transformed into new San Francisco," Newsom said.

First, the cleanup

 

Before any such transformation can happen, the land around the Mirant plant must be cleaned. PG&E, which owned the site before Mirant Corp., began removing debris in the area Tuesday as part of a plan to reinforce the shoreline to prevent coal tar contamination from seeping into the bay.

 

Some chemical experts believe that tar-related toxins have been migrating into the bay mud for decades. A Chronicle report in February showed that PG&E has known about the coal tar contamination for more than a decade but didn't conduct a full study on whether the toxins were moving into the bay until last year. The utility is to present its preliminary results to the Port Commission on March 9, said PG&E spokesman Matt Nauman.

 

In the interim, the company is constructing a barrier designed to prevent toxic byproducts from getting into the bay and stop erosion along 155 feet of shoreline that extends from the southern part of Pier 70 to the northern portion of the power plant.

 

PG&E's tentative deadline for completing its investigation of the toxins and conducting necessary cleanup is 2012.

 

"We know the city has plans to redevelop this area of San Francisco, and we want to support that by addressing our historic operations now," Nauman said.

 

City Hall officials were pleased by Tuesday's announcement. Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, who has advocated with others to close the plant for the 10 years she's been in office, called the announcement "a great victory."

 

"It was a lot of pushing and pulling and really being a pain in the butt, but it took that kind of persistence to make this happen," she said.

 

City Attorney Dennis Herrera, whose office negotiated the closure with Mirant Corp. said, "After years of contention ... we are today united in our appreciation that it was achieved."

 

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