Energy Exec Says He's Willing To Go To Extreme Measures To 'Keep the Lights On and the Gas Flowing'
The energy industry wants to make sure you know how hard its workers are going to fight to keep the lights from going out.
‘Nuclear-renewable systems could link emission-free nuclear power plants with variable renewables like solar or wind farms and could allow nuclear power to backstop intermittent generation.’
‘If we aren’t careful, we could slide back to the kind of crisis we faced in 2000 and 2001.’
The now-abandoned Mixed Oxide project illustrates just how expensive building these facilities has become.
“FirstEnergy asked Perry to ‘find that an emergency condition exists’ and ‘promptly compensate at-risk merchant nuclear and coal-fired power plants.'”
Coal plants have been been prematurely retired en mass since 2012.