Nuclear Power
The Ohio Senate passed the Clean Air Act to curb state renewable energy mandates and create subsidies for nuclear and coal plants.
Exelon told PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee that the RTO “buried the lede” in its analysis of nuclear plant retirements in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The clock may have run out for Ohio lawmakers to rescue nuclear power plants along Lake Erie, as a concession to renewable supporters failed to win a vote.
Ohio lawmakers are being asked to trade ratepayer-funded renewable energy mandates for the jobs and carbon-free energy of FirstEnergy’s nuclear plants.
FERC rejected separate rehearing requests from both sides in a dispute over the ROE for Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nuclear Station.
Three nuclear plants facing early retirements in Pennsylvania and Ohio would keep consumer costs lower if they stay online, PJM concluded.
A plan pending before the Ohio Legislature could divert ratepayer funds away from renewable resources to subsidize nuclear and fossil fuel plants.
An attempt to save Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island fell apart, but that doesn’t mean state lawmakers will abandon support for nuclear subsidies altogether.
Exelon announced it will permanently shut down the nearly 45-year-old Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Londonderry Township, Pa., by Sept. 30.
The fate of Three Mile Island looks bleaker as Pennsylvania lawmakers wrapped up hearings that considered subsidizing the state’s nuclear fleet.
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