The State Water Resources Control Board is overseeing the phase-out of natural gas plants in Southern California but it just extended operations at power plants in Oxnard, Huntington Beach, and Long Beach for another three years and the Scattergood Generating Station in Playa Del Rey for another five years.
Plants in Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Oxnard will stand by to provide emergency power for three more years despite a mandate to switch to clean energy by 2045.