gist a guess, butt aye yam figuring n.y. pols don't wanna here wining bout brownouts wile shutting down coal fires.
not hardly,...
there might be 3 coal plants left operating in all of the state, perhaps two or three other idled/retired dirt burners which could convert to natgas,...
coal, oil, wind and solar account for less than 10% of the power generated in New York,...
nuclear's 33%,...
natgas is 39%,...
hydro is about 20%,...
New York runs about a 2500 MW margin, some years higher, some years lower,...
in the areas of the state where the nukes are located that margin is much thinner,....
power generation, consumption and margin is heavily skewed to the Hudson River valley and the NYC metro,...
it's politics:
IF New York wants to be the "green state" it's own legislated goals have set for itself,...
THEN New York has little realistic choice but to embrace and subsidize the established 33% of nuclear which already exists,...
particularly when those plants are owned (powned?!?!) by a bunch of Lousiana boys who are in it to make their money, and really could not give a rat's ass less how many Yankees freeze their "green is clean" asses off in some future cold, dark January,...
this latest subsidy will be about 2 dollars per month per residential customer,...
current renewable subsidies are about the same,...
of course the bang for the buck is much better, $2 for 33% of what comes down the wire versus $2 for maybe 6% of what comes down the wire,...
if you extrapolate the math you can see pretty quickly how even an energy panderer such as Cuomo had to swallow the bitter nuke pill in New York,...
high electric bills drive established New Yorkers out of state (amongst other things),...
we miss perspicacious, political, Pataki,...
we now suffer the cunning, cursory, Cuomo,...
Cuomo II that is,...
here's your primer, it is not all inclusive but it will get you started and is pert much plain english:
http://www.nyiso.com/public/webdocs/media_room/press_releases/2015/Child_PowerTrends_2015/ptrends2015_FINAL.pdfalmost forgot,...(sic 4 beercort)