Solar energy company says solar, batteries can replace LADWP's gas power plants

When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced back in February that LADWP would phase out three natural gas power plants located along the coast over the next decade, customers started asking how the utility company would make up for that lost power.The three power plants represent 38% of the city's current natural gas portfolio. The residential solar power provider Sunrun thinks they have a solution. "We used to be a majority coal and gas, now we're just 50% coal and gas and soon will be 100% renewable. That's going to be solar, wind hydropower so we have to replace that with what we have, the sunshine," said Garcetti.