California’s legislature voted overnight to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, the state’s last nuclear power plant, open for another five years beyond its previously scheduled shutdown.
More than two-thirds of California’s assembly and Senate passed Senate Bill 846 early Thursday morning to extend the plant’s operation until 2030, according to state legislature voting records. [bold, links added]
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom originally proposed keeping the plant open as delays in green-energy production and heatwaves could push power demand beyond available electricity supplies, causing blackouts and energy shortages, according to an Aug. 12 webinar hosted by the California Energy Commission.
California government officials explained that green energy developments aimed at replacing the nuclear plant’s output are slowing due to supply chain issues during the webinar.
“We are behind where we need to be in bringing our clean resources online, to ensure that we can retire the Diablo Canyon plant,” said California Department of Finance director Ana Matosantos. “This is something that we think is necessary to maintain reliability, necessary to make our transition.”
Newsom’s plan will also give Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the state’s largest power company, a $1.4 billion forgivable loan to continue running the nuclear plant.
California is accelerating its plans to transition to a green energy economy and meet its targets to produce 100% of its energy from ‘clean’ sources by 2045, according to the California Energy Commission.
However, the state does not currently have enough lithium-ion battery storage to completely supply its grid with wind and solar power, according to the LA Times.
The state is currently facing severe energy shortages and residents are being urged to curb energy consumption to prevent power outages, according to an announcement made by a major California state-run grid operator.
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A momentary lapse of insanity.
Unfortunately they still seem to hold onto the belief that wind and solar can actually power the grid.
Some common sense at last despite our Governor being a total idiot and the ban on gasoline cars using liberal democrat Politics and Junk Science
Sep 1, 2022 Hollywood stars ‘caught out’ with climate ‘hypocrisy’
Those who are most successful in Hollywood struggle to recognise the “repulsive hypocrisy” of their own actions. Mr Dean discussed the hypocrisy of Hollywood stars who make numerous trips on private jets such as Steven Spielberg.
https://youtu.be/SqnKKJ8za1U
If this wasn’t so serious [for the people of California] it would be laughable.
What needs to happen for the ideologues to understand that renewables cannot – ever – supply electricity 24/7 and when demand is at its peak?
The only answer I can find to this question is a lot of people in authority are getting very rich at the expense of the average citizen and that’s a crime.
These people don’t need to be clever investors, they just direct their spare cash into renewable projects and the tax payer funded subsidies guarantee a healthy profit on top of which they also receive tax concessions.
What is going to happen to stop this deceptive activity(?) – the lie of the century.
I can remember all the anti-Nuclear idiots back in the days when the idiots from the Clamshell Alliance and the Nuclear power station outside Seabrook New Hamshire and the usial mindless banter from Hanoi Jane and this China Syndrome load of Malarkey