FirstEnergy Solutions announces timetable for nuclear plant closures

[Marlin]

FirstEnergy Solutions announces timetable for nuclear plant closures


https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/local/firstenergy-solutions-announces-timetable-for-nuclear-plant-closures

[TVA]

So sad

[Mounder]

2,300 employees will be out of work.  Story ran three days ago in the Akron paper.   Number of reader comments:  ZERO.  Projections on price and limit of fracking gas: NONE.  Not our problem until it suddenly is our problem.

[TVA]

Its a small part of the grid. Wont raise prices one bit. Those plants are losing 20 million a year. The plants in the north only have themselves to blame as they pushed for deregulation in the 90s. The utilities job is to make money. Nothing else. They are losing and the state representatives are holding them responsible. It's the way it should be. The areas that have shutdown nukes have yet to complain about higher power prices. Thats the bottom line. NO SUBSIDIES.

[GLW]

Its a small part of the grid. Wont raise prices one bit. Those plants are losing 20 million a year. The plants in the north only have themselves to blame as they pushed for deregulation in the 90s. The utilities job is to make money. Nothing else. They are losing and the state representatives are holding them responsible. It's the way it should be. The areas that have shutdown nukes have yet to complain about higher power prices. Thats the bottom line. NO SUBSIDIES.

regarding Besse - what has changed since  Jan 28, 2018, 06:53?

Besse was supposed to be the one that was on a weak place on the grid,...

maybe this?

https://www.power-eng.com/articles/2017/12/state-board-approves-plans-for-natural-gas-plant-near-toledo.html

can this be built and on-line at or before May 31, 2020?

if they can get this on-line that's 955 MW, enough to say buh bye to DB,....

ya know, back in the day, the unions on Long Island were strong enough to get the nukeworkers displaced from Shoreham placed into gas distribution and generation jobs within the utility,...

hmmmmmm,....

[TVA]

The Bess was always in the weak corner of their grid