NEI reports that the Diablo Canyon Power Plant has on site a desalination facility that it uses to generate fresh water from seawater. And lots of it - the Diablo desalinization facility is capable of producing 1.5 million gallons of treated water a day. So in addition to producing 2,300 megawatts of carbon-free power, nearly 10 percent of all electricity generated in California, and enough energy to meet the needs of more than three million Northern and Central Californians, Diablo Canyon is poised to be a source to aid California with its historic drought.
This news merits broader coverage, and credit to the San Luis Obispo Tribune for following through. Its coverage notes that the facility is the largest facility of its kind on the West Coast. The state, and San Luis Obispo County especially, is enduring a fourth consecutive year of brutal drought. The Tribune reported that for the first time in the Diablo Canyon 30-year history of operation, its desalination plant has become the object of intense public interest because of its potential to serve neighboring communities.
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