Through administrative moves, he has indicated that he sees the need to responsibly exploit the state's enormous gas resource while moving toward
ending nuclear power generation near New York City and its suburbs.
Not exact matches
The report calls for ageing fossil fuel and
nuclear power plants to be replaced by renewable
generation when they reach the
end of their operational lives.
«It's not like
power supply of the past where you had a bunch of
nuclear power plants, a couple coal plants and some gas - fired
generation with the odd renewable asset thrown in, and then a jumbled mix of grey and green
power being sold at the consumer
end,» says Uli Suedhoff, a director at GE Renewable Energy in Europe.
Given the evident concern about
nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new
nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely
end of electricity
generation for the first new
nuclear power station».