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Gas Line Explosions, Summer Heat Storms, and Wildfires, Oh My!
- despite all of these challenges, Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) stabilizes California electricity prices.
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Gene Nelson, Ph.D.
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“Meredith Angwin – Shorting the Grid”, by Roger Caiazza
Electric Grandma: “Market manipulation was successful in California because there was nobody responsible for making the system work. In an RTO area, the…
Published on The Word Merchant • 
The Joule-er’s Accountant and Energy Return on Investment
Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is a fundamental concept in the field of energy and power generation
Published on Tucos's Child Newsletter • 
Global Power Demand Is Soaring, IEA Expects 4% Growth in ’24 & ‘25
Coal powers growth in India & China, gas burn in U.S. sets new record as wind goes AWOL
Published on Robert Bryce • 

July 2024

Less than net one cent per kilowatt-hour to keep Diablo Canyon running
The likely cause is the plant is essentially fully-depreciated
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Gene Nelson, Ph.D.
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Offshore Account
California Rushes In Where Angels Fear to Tread
Published on The Joule Thief • 
The Case of the Missing 40 MMT/year of California Electricity Sector Emissions
The coal train needed to generate those emissions would be 1,159 miles long.
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Gene Nelson, Ph.D.
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"Shorting the Grid" Shows Us Everything Wrong with Grid and the Dangers of Regionalization
Meredith Angwin is a reader of this substack and when I wrote a post critical of the Republican governor of Vermont where she and her husband reside…
Published on Energy Security and Freedom • 
Why Are Electric Rates Higher Within Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) Regions? Dysfunction Maybe?
Government is generally dysfunctional. The bigger the government, the more dysfunctional it is. That’s why the principle of subsidiarity is so…
Published on Energy Security and Freedom • 

June 2024

GreenNUKE is a voice for energy reason and common sense.
- shining a light on the corruption and idiocy destroying the U.S. power grid
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Gene Nelson, Ph.D.
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Gridrot
How subsidies for wind and solar built dry rot into the Texas power grid
Published on Will’s Substack • 
Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You
PacifiCorp's Likely Influence on the nonprofits it could fund
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Gene Nelson, Ph.D.
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