Plant -
closure and religion and labor coalitions have been formed,
among other places, in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago and California.
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.