LA DWP Scattergood Generating Station

I never thought I would be doing a review on a power plant. LOL, I love Karen C’s mention of the Simpson’s — «Springfield’s nuclear power plant» That is exactly the same thing I thought! Now residing there, I have a view of them everyday while I’m walking down catwalk (walkway) of my complex. My other view is the Chevron Refinery. I never thought I’d be so intrigued staring at both since I’ve been here and probably will never get bored gawking at them. Gives me that «Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world» feeling. (yes, I grew up listening to Journey & wore their concert t-​shirts in the 80’s).
Anyhow, back to Scattergood. I can’t say anything else, other than I’m completely drawn to look at it and love those over cast days or cooler days w/​winds and seeing the puffs of symbolic smoke rings billowing out of smoke stacks. Yup, I’m that easy to entertain sadly.
*Correction — steam/​vapors — not smoke rings.
Also reading Karen C’s assessment of the power station is very well informative. It is a good thing, because we need power/​electricity!
Come to the beach, walk/​bike the path and check it out some time, that is if your into anything that makes you go «aww»

And I thought that all the power plants were like the one shown in The Simpsons! =) This power plant has been in a few movies and TV shows. Part of Star Wars was filmed here and recently an episode of Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles.
The LADWP Scattergood Generating Station is past LAX across the street from the beach and next door to the Hyperion. When the wind is blowing the just the right (wrong?) way you can’t miss the fact that Hyperion is a Sewage Treatment Plant! @_@
Hyperion and Scattergood have a good relationship. Steam from the steam generating plant is piped over to the sewer treatment plant to ferment the sludge, producing methane gas that is piped back into the power plant and burned. I think about 20% of the gas used is produced this way. It’s good to know that a portion of the waste from people living in the greater Los Angeles area is getting turned into electricity which will power their homes.
This power plant has three units one producing 450MW and two producing 150MW which can power a million homes if they are all running at full capacity. In the winter season less electricity is used so a unit would be down for their annual maintenance. Maintenance is key, because the plant has been operating since the 1940s and there are some old machinery still being used.
The employees work hard and seem to get along with each other. I guess I would be in a good mood if I worked right across the beach! Employees could go jogging, bike riding or play volleyball on their lunch break. On a clear day you can see Catalina from the 250ft high smoke stack.
I think the only downsides of this place is the commute (especially on the 405) and that the machinery is not as efficient as it could be because since it’s so old.