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From: Redlands Daily Facts
Date: 20060422
Author:COLLEEN MENSCHING

REDLANDS - American satirist Ambrose Bierce defined electricity as "the cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else."

The illumination of a room at the flick of a light switch is just such a phenomenon. A new 1,054-megawatt power plant in Redlands has the capacity to keep those lights on in 685,000 Southern California homes, just in time for warmer weather and increased demand on existing power supplies.

The $625 million plant, owned and operated by Southern California Edison, was dedicated to the Inland Empire and greater Southern California by Edison ...

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