Uncertainty shadows Pennsylvania’s debate over nuclear power

[Marlin]

Uncertainty shadows Pennsylvania's debate over nuclear power


https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/uncertainty-shadows-pennsylvanias-debate-over-nuclear-power/

[TVA]

FERC created no such thing. They did what their statute requires.

Saying that I do hope they come up with a solution that does not raise rates. If it does let the nukes die.

[atomicarcheologist]

FERC created no such thing. They did what their statute requires.

Saying that I do hope they come up with a solution that does not raise rates. If it does let the nukes die.

Either way, rates will raise.

[TVA]

You realize they have gone down everywhere a nuke has closed right?
Nukes are closing because they are too expensive.
It's a self inflicted wound. Has zero to do with FERC

[hamsamich]

so rates have gone down near san clemente?

[hamsamich]

Japan׳s Fukushima nuclear disaster, triggered by the March 11, 2011 earthquake, has led to calls for shutting down existing nuclear plants. To maintain resource adequacy for a grid׳s reliable operation, one option is to expand conventional generation, whose marginal unit is typically fueled by natural-gas. Two timely and relevant questions thus arise for a deregulated wholesale electricity market: (1) what is the likely price increase due to a nuclear plant shutdown? and (2) what can be done to mitigate the price increase? To answer these questions, we perform a regression analysis of a large sample of hourly real-time electricity-market price data from the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) for the 33-month sample period of April 2010–December 2012. Our analysis indicates that the 2013 shutdown of the state׳s San Onofre plant raised the CAISO real-time hourly market prices by $6/MWH to $9/MWH, and that the price increases could have been offset by a combination of demand reduction, increasing solar generation, and increasing wind generation.

Energy Policy
Volume 73, October 2014, Pages 234-244

[atomicarcheologist]

https://ihsmarkit.com/Info/0917/electricity-generation-special-report.html