Enough with "renewables!" By Valerie Gardner Cross-Posted with permission from Atomic Insights. The American Nuclear Society posted an article entitled How a nuclear victory at COP27 started with a teen and a text reporting on the wonderful story of Ia Aanstoot. This is the 17-year old [...]
MM New York City facing emergency energy crisis within 60 days of closing Indian Point: Who would have guessed? Commentary on 'Conserve Energy': New York City Begs Residents to Help Avoid Outages, a New York Times article by Mihir Zaveri and Ashley Wong Less than sixty days from closing the [...]
NYISO's Mischaractization of Key Information The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) releases an annual state of the grid and markets report called Power Trends. According to NYISO CEO, Robert Fernandez, this report "provides the facts and analysis necessary to understand the many factors shaping New York’s complex electric system." In [...]
So Gas it is! by Isuru Seneviratne, Nuclear New York April 27, 2020 ______________________ New York’s electricity is a tale of two grids: the low-carbon upstate grid (81% powered by hydro and nuclear), and the high-carbon downstate one (70% powered by methane gas). Indian Point is responsible for 80% of downstate clean [...]
