Sentences with phrase «many nuclear utilities»

Several nuclear utility companies then pursued consolidated storage on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah.

Private Fuel Storage (PFS) is a consortium of eight nuclear utilities that since 1996 has pursued using reservation land of the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes about 45 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah for the «temporary» storage of irradiated fuel.

Because no state has ever «volunteered» a site for a «monitored retrievable storage» or a repository, first DOE, and then some nuclear utilities have asked tribes to volunteer some of their land.

«Ohio's economy can not absorb the shock of taking existing nuclear utilities off - line in a deregulated market,» he told a local paper earlier this week.

In the event of a catastrophic accident, every nuclear utility would be required to contribute up to $ 95.8 million for each licensed reactor to a pool to help cover the accident's cost.

The Price - Anderson Act requires nuclear utilities to buy private insurance of about $ 375 million per plant.

If liability exceeds $ 13 billion, Congress can require nuclear utilities collectively to pay more to settle the additional claims.

We investigate and defend such claims on behalf of many nuclear utilities and vendors across the nation.

We counsel nuclear utilities on every aspect of nuclear licensing, regulation, and related investigation and enforcement matters.

Thousands of managers and executives within the nuclear sector, including those at numerous nuclear utilities, DOE prime contractors, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, and the DOE itself, have received this training.

Not exact matches

U.S. utility giant Southern Co. didn't get the extension it had been looking for that would've qualified its long - delayed nuclear power project in Georgia for a production tax credit.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

Its bad enough Cuomo wants to saddle utility payers with the handouts he's giving to the nuclear plants.

Heastie pointed to the Republican support for a subsidy aimed at bolstering upstate nuclear power plants, which is expected to add roughly $ 2 to the average utility bill as a sign some GOP lawmakers are open to tacking on more fees or taxes to help pay for a broader public benefit, such as preserving jobs.

Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party could start returning to a familiar model: the nationalisation of public utilities, tax - and - spend, defence retrenchment, unilateral nuclear disarmament.

At the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, for example, the PSC ordered subsidy payments to keep Ginna running - but only for 18 months while the local utility finishes building a transmission line to bring in power from elsewhere.

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

A plan to offer a $ 7.6 billion subsidy to the company controlling most of New York's nuclear power plants will cost the City Of Buffalo about $ 3.35 million in added utility costs, according to a new analysis by the Alliance for a Green Economy.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, called Reforming the Energy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York's groundbreaking subsidies for nuclear plants, clearing the way for three Upstate nukes to continue collecting roughly $ 483 million a year from utility ratepayers.

It's just a reckless pie in the sky idea that Cuomo floated that's surely going to raise electricity rates, as if the nuclear bailout wasn't enough or the fact the NY is the only state to charge its residents sales tax on its utility bills.

While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration's plan to save nuclear power plants will force utilities to pay for emissions credits that cover their losses in the face of cheap natural gas.

Utilities and other energy companies, such as energy service companies, will purchase power from nuclear facilities.

Exelon officials have expressed support for Cuomo's new clean energy standard, which is expected to allow utilities to use nuclear power to fulfill a mandate to purchase 50 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

The city of Yonkers will pay an extra $ 3 million to keep its lights on over the next 12 years, according to a study of utility costs linked to a controversial Cuomo administration plan to bail out three upstate nuclear power plants.

Cuomo will count nuclear power as renewable energy, at least temporarily, when the state issues new rules next year requiring utilities to procure half their power from renewable sources by 2030.

At noon, Community leaders denounce Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 12 - year - plan to bail out three aging upstate nuclear reactors by charging New Yorker utility ratepayerss an estimated $ 7.6 billion in subsidies.

Anti-tax activate Grover Norquist weighed in on the state subsidy of upstate nuclear plants, saying it's an end run around the Legislature that will result in a rate hike for utility customers.

Cuomo's plan to bail out upstate nuclear plants could end up raising electricity expenditures for health systems around the state by at least $ 13.4 million, according to a report by a consumer utility advocacy group.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham wants to put a stop to Florida utility ratepayers paying for nuclear power plants that were never built or which never worked, or for paying for fracking exploration in Florida.

New York utility regulators have approved the sale of an upstate nuclear power plant, part of the state's strategy of investing in nuclear energy while weaning itself off of fossil fuels.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

The findings suggest that without nuclear power utilities would turn to fossil fuels over renewable sources.

It would require utilities to purchase power from nuclear facilities, and those costs would then be passed along to customers, who now pay some of the highest energy costs in the nation.

In the case of the Ginna nuclear plant in Wayne County, the PSC's review concluded that Rochester - area utility customers should subsidize the plant for 18 months to keep it running long enough to develop alternative power sources.

Some observers, including utility officials and stock analysts, expect that unless market conditions improve the PSC may get requests for similar agreements from other Upstate nuclear or coal plants.

Increasingly, Entergy is focusing on its regulated utility business, which is more profitable than the six merchant nuclear plants it operates.

Vermont utilities have to import «offset» nuclear power via New Hampshire's Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, a zero - carbon, high energy wornuclear power via New Hampshire's Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, a zero - carbon, high energy worNuclear Power Station, a zero - carbon, high energy workhorse.

Under the guise of promoting renewable energy, Cuomo is attempting an end run around the legislature to impose a rate hike on state utility consumers in order to bail out four failing nuclear plants in the state, all of which are coincidently owned by the same corporation.

The parent company of New York's Indian Point nuclear plant and utility workers union have agreed on a four - year contract.

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

Germans jumped at the opportunity to fight climate change, phase out nuclear power, make a profit and free themselves from the «Big Four» utilities.