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In the second most interesting speech of the week (sorry, couldn’t resist), NRG president and CEO David Crane said “nuclear loan guarantees like the one the administration conditionally awarded Southern Company this week won...
Posted Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 10:37 am | Filed in: Electrification, Nuclear, Oil Dependence
Yesterday, President Obama announced federal loan guarantees totaling $8.3 billion that will enable the construction of two new reactors in Georgia. These would be the first new U.S. nuclear plants in more than 30 years. Secre...
Posted Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 7:52 am | Filed in: Electricity, Nuclear
Later today, we expect to learn that the President’s FY 2011 budget will include $54 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power plants. This is a critical step forward to the revitalization of the nucle...
Posted Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 4:47 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Supply, Nuclear, Uncategorized
In an effort to cobble together 60 votes on energy and climate legislation before the legislative session’s clock strikes midnight, ‘tripartisan’ Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) relea...
Posted Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, Nuclear
'Tis the season for finalizing Federal agency budgets in exchanges between the various Departments and the Office of Management and Budget, which means it's also the season for strategic leaks of budget documents by fo...
Posted Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 5:31 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Nuclear, Uncategorized
There are two somewhat dispiriting things about White House energy and climate advisor Carol Browner’s statements last weekend that climate change and energy legislation are “not going to happen” this year.
First was the ...
Posted Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 8:39 am | Filed in: Legislation, Nuclear
Advocates for nuclear power in Germany won a decisive victory this week as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU-CSU (center-right group) and new ally, the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), begin governing. Throughout the elect...
Posted Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at 9:07 am | Filed in: Nuclear, Oil Dependence
On Monday we noted Gov. Schwarzenegger was reportedly considering allowing power generated at nuclear plants to help meet the renewable power requirements that he established by executive order. We noted that this could have b...
Posted Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 10:44 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electrification, Energy Supply, Nuclear
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce this week a requirement that 33 percent of the power sold by California utilities be renewable energy. (California law already requires that 20 percent of power b...
Posted Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 6:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Energy Supply, Environment, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Perhaps it's fitting that as a Nevada lawyer, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff is willing to gamble that the U.S. won't need new baseload power generation from nuclear or coal ("We may not need any, ever," reported Greenwire http://...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Nuclear, Wind
