Category: ‘ Nuclear ’

 

Weekly Political Roundup — The Week’s Other Noteworthy Speech

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...

Loan Guarantees Increase Nuclear Promise

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...

A Nuclear Renaissance

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...

Weekly Political Roundup: ‘Tis The Season

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...

Yucca Mountain, R.I.P.

  '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...

Weekly Political Roundup—Making Sausage

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 ...

Expanding Nuclear Power

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...

Schwarzenegger Says Nuclear Power is Not Renewable

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...

Making Nuclear Power Renewable

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...

Rolling the dice on renewables

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://...