Sentences with phrase «nuclear plant closures»

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has directed his department to conduct a wide - ranging study of the U.S. electric grid, with a particular emphasis on recent coal and nuclear plant closures and whether environmental policies may be driving them.

But in every instance, the nuclear plant closures have led to higher emissions and electricity prices, pointing out a difficult truth.

To calculate the emissions from Germany's electricity production in 2016 that could have been avoided without nuclear plant closures, we estimated the electricity production of all of Germany's historically operating reactors larger than 600MW.

Complicating this is that unlike other power plants, nuclear plant closures are permanent, as there is no established regulatory process to reverse the decision, the NEI says.

The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»

State officials argued that nuclear plant closures would prompt an increase in fossil fuel generation, in conflict with Cuomo's goal to reduce carbon emmissions 40 percent by 2030.

First is the uranium spot market has been rather tight in terms of overall percentage of production, and there have been some nuclear plant closures in addition to shutdowns in Japan after Fukushima.

Not exact matches

The nuclear energy industry, and the grey metal that powers it, struggled to overcome the Fukushima disaster that, directly or indirectly, led to numerous power plant closures this year.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

The Democratic chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators said Thursday legislation to support Republican County Executive Rob Astorino's planned lawsuit to stop or delay the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is dead on arrival.

A Hudson Valley - based environmental group will hold a panel discussion Wednesday in Manhattan about the impending closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

A report commissioned by two environmental groups shows that low - carbon options will be ready to replace the more than 2,000 megawatts of power lost by the closure of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant in four years.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino plans to speak with Energy Sectetary - designate Rick Perry about the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan.

Paving the way for Indian Point's termination, the state Legislature last month passed legislation making it easier to site new nuclear plants, which conceivably might be needed to replace power lost by Indian Point's closure.

County Executive Rob Astorino kicked off his Town Hall series in the northern Westchester town of Cortlandt last night, where the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant will have an impact.

That's one possible outcome of the looming Indian Point nuclear power plant closure, which the Cuomo administration earlier this year said would happen by 2021.

He has also repeatedly called for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester County, a popular move with advocacy groups.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

«The plan included the immediate permanent closure of six nuclear power plants that had been temporarily shut down for testing in March 2011, and two more that have been offline a few years with technical problems.

Cuomo has a complicated relationship with nuclear power, however, having called for the closure of Indian Point considering the plant's proximity to New York City and the lack of a viable evacuation plan should a crisis occur.

The impending closure of the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County is already financially impacting the nearby Mexico School District.

Riverkeeper has also been advocating for the closure of Indian Point nuclear power plant, located in the Town of Buchanan, Westchester County, New York.

In exchange, Exelon — the company that now owns all of the plants — agreed to drop closure threats to two of the nuclear reactors and keep them running for another 12 years.

One of the Democratic presidential hopefuls is calling for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

Nuclear and coal - burning power plants across the state are struggling to compete with cheap natural gas and some have announced closures in recent months.

Murphy says he was upset by what he did not hear regarding the closure by 2021 of Indian Point nuclear power plant, in his 40th state Senate District.

The issues that lead to the closure of Pilgrim, which is the last nuclear plant operating in Massachusetts, are very similar to those affecting FitzPatrick, Twomey said.

ALBANY — A spike in radioactive groundwater around the Indian Point nuclear facility has prompted elected officials to call again for the plant's closure.

While Cuomo has seized upon every hiccup at the Indian Point nuclear plant downstate to amplify his calls for its closure, he has touted the benefits of the FitzPatrick plant and other upstate nuclear power generation.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - Supporters of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County are planning a rally Monday to show support for the facility, which is under review for possible closure by its owner, Entergy Corp..

PSC Chair Audrey Zibelman said at the time that nuclear plants are unique and that requiring a formal notice of closure would magnify the likelihood that a nuclear plant would close before subsidies could be negotiated.

Cuomo's push to shut down Indian Point contrasts with the up to $ 7 billion ratepayer subsidy nuclear power plants in upstate New York are set to receive over 12 years, though the move likely figured into Indian Point's closure.

And the county faced a virtual calamity in late 2015 when the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, which employs around 600 people, was headed for closure.

In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power plant in upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

He is actively planning for the rapid closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which is around 30 miles north of New York City and near Cuomo's home in Westchester County.

A New York state senator from the Hudson Valley believes there has been little progress regarding an action plan for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

But New York regulators stepped in to prevent its closure, passing a comprehensive clean energy plan that will the state's financially struggling nuclear plants, including FitzPatrick, with subsidies that are scheduled to kick in tomorrow.

Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

The government, said Major, welcomes steps by Central and Eastern European countries to adopt energy strategies which will help them to press ahead with early closure of the older, higher - risk Soviet - designed nuclear power plants like those at Bohunice.

Now, a new study in Nature Energy by a young economist at Carnegie Mellon University, finds that the temporary closure of two nuclear plants in the early 1980s led directly to lower birth weights — a key indicator of poor health outcomes later in life [3].

Some numbers Where both BNEF and EP find 9.3 gigawatts of nuclear threatened in Illinois, Rhodium finds 7.4 gigawatts for the whole East North Central region, which includes Illinois and Michigan, whose Palisades nuclear plant was announced for closure in December.

· Demand for nuclear energy globally is low, and the new reactors being built may not keep up with the closure of nuclear plants around the world.

Last year, EP and I were the first to note that the share of global electricity coming from clean energy had — against the hype — actually declined, in part due to the closure and cancellation of nuclear plants.

Diablo Canyon's two reactors are also California's last operating nuclear plants, following the closure many years ago of Rancho Seco near Sacramento, and more recently, the last of the San Onofre reactors.

In 2016, pro-nuclear advocates won our first victories against the anti-nuclear Goliath, saving nuclear plants from closure in Switzerland, Illinois, New York and Sweden.