Boone Pickens has argued for years that natural gas is the best immediately available economic and environmental solution for U.S. energy needs, a bridge over oil and coal to the future when alternative solar, wind, and nuclear power will be ready to take over more of the load.

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Edison, which supplies over 3 million customers electric power in an area spanning 1, 564 square kilometers, serves the densest load pocket on the planet.

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