tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post6970557699259120494..comments2023-04-07T05:19:44.951-04:00Comments on Yes Vermont Yankee: Where Vermont Power Will Come From After Vermont YankeeMeredith Angwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-55891463542880855092013-11-19T16:05:05.995-05:002013-11-19T16:05:05.995-05:00Carl
I agree. Closing VY is wrong so many ways, i...Carl<br />I agree. Closing VY is wrong so many ways, including greenhouse gas emissions! But there was only so much space. Also, I wanted to write something that would surprise people, to some extent. Most people have heard that VY is important to the economy, doesn't emit greenhouse gases, etc. They don't know about the natural gas squeeze, our position vis-a-vis HQ (they take care of Quebec first) and other things.<br /><br />Trag<br />I am also the administrator on the Save Vermont Yankee FB page. Last January, during the cold snap, I got some very interesting comments on what fools the people at HQ were to shut down Gentilly and not have power to send us. These comments mostly came from Quebec! HQ gets most of its profits from export power, not legacy power.<br /><br />More on this in the January post on "Cold Weather Winners and Losers on the Grid"<br /><br />http://yesvy.blogspot.com/2013/01/cold-weather-winners-and-losers-on.html<br /> Meredith Angwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-41054207615369217502013-11-19T12:59:12.712-05:002013-11-19T12:59:12.712-05:00That is a nice piece of writing, and congratulatio...That is a nice piece of writing, and congratulations on getting it into the local paper.<br /><br />One thing that struck me, while reading the section regarding buying electricity from Quebec, is that Quebec would have more electricity available to sell during high demand periods, if they had not shut down Gentilly 2.<br /><br />That was probably too much of a digression for your tightly written piece, but I think it's ironic.<br /><br />The same backwards thinking ignorance that will gift Vermont with expensive, unreliable electricity in the winter is also preventing it from purchasing all the electricity it needs from Quebec.<br /><br />traghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567888742411686266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-38438306954685357612013-11-19T12:50:54.205-05:002013-11-19T12:50:54.205-05:00Greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in Cali...Greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in California increased by 35% in 2012, partly due to the early closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant...<br /><br />...The Air Resources Board said that the increase in emissions in 2012 was "primarily due to emission increases from California electricity generation using natural gas as a fuel." This was due to a decrease in available hydroelectric generation as well as the shut down of the San Onofre nuclear plant...<br /><br />...As well as increasing emissions, the plant's closure has also impacted California's wholesale electricity prices. Over the first half of 2013, the US Energy Information Administration reported a 59% increase in wholesale power prices in the state, which it ascribes largely to the extended outages at the two units...<br /><br />http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/EE-California-emissions-rise-on-San-Onofre-shut-down-0511135.html<br />Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09772862865362404361noreply@blogger.com