AES Power Plant, California

The AES power plant is the only major power plant in Orange County, which otherwise gets its power from outside the county. The plant can generate 450 MW of electricity, and is located in a coastal industrial area in Huntington Beach, adjacent to the Ascon/NESI Superfund site, a gas and oil tank farm, and near a cluster of off-shore oil rigs. The beach across from the plant is occasionally polluted by human waste, possibly due to the cooling water intake of the plant concentrating the waste that emerges from the outfall of the County's sewage treatment plant, which is located a few miles down the beach.