Sentences with phrase «requires nuclear utilities»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The starting point for any country that wants to include nuclear energy in its generation mix is to require a political and «social» operating licence for utilities running nuclear plants and facilities.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning the plant when it is worn out, and of insuring the reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is clearly not economical.

The nation's first ZEC programs began in New York and Illinois and require load - serving entities (e.g. electric utilities) to purchase ZECs from specified, in - state nuclear facilities (note: only certain nuclear units in New York and Illinois qualify).

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.

It would require utilities to meet an increasing percentage of electricity sales from solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, and energy efficiency, reaching 25 % of base year sales by 2025 (and deleting the current, obnoxious slight - of - hand that leaves nuclear out of the equation, but keeping a base year of 2007).

The Low Carbon Portfolio Standard bill backed by Exelon would have required the state's electric utilities to purchase credits from low - carbon energy sources, including nuclear energy, to match 70 % of the electricity used on the distribution system.

«It wants to essentially re-regulate and require utilities to purchase 70 % of their power from nuclear plants owned by Exelon.

Starting in April 2017, the Clean Energy Standard requires all six New York investor - owned utilities and other energy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon - free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing Zero - Emission Credits.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning a plant when it wears out, and of insuring reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is simply not economical.

An August decision by the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) approving New York's Clean Energy Standard included a provision requiring the state's investor - owned utilities and other energy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon - free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing «Zero - Emission Credits» (ZEC).