This detailed article provides information regarding the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors legislative objectives regarding DCPP extended operations. Eight of the nine larger cities in San Luis Obispo County signed on the the County letter.
....The letter “respectfully requests” the Legislature to:
• Support the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulatory approval process and establish a state licensing pathway to authorize DCPP to operate for up to 20 additional years.
• Enact legislation restoring historic pre-decommissioning unitary tax treatment for Diablo Canyon Power Plant including land valuation for the duration of its extended operations or provide alternate equivalent financial mitigations.
• Support the California Coastal Commission’s land conservation and public access plan for lands surrounding Diablo Canyon, in coordination with appropriate regulatory and conservation agencies.
Supervisors asked other agencies to sign on to the letter and some have already done so, as they too have skin in this game.....
Thank you for your DCPP cost analysis, John. CPUC intervenor Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. calculated DCPP's 2026 cost in A.25-03-015 to be $21.28/MWh, which is an incredible bargain for the high-quality 24-7-365 reliable power that the plant provides. There are additional relevant details in our Reply Comments dated October 22, 2025. See our filing at https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M585/K485/585485740.PDF
CGNP has frequently "locked horns" with the CPUC since 2018 as a consequence of their anti nuclear power bias. We have attempted novel legal approaches, so far without success. We believe that the CPUC is politically corrupt. It plays a major role in California typically having the most expensive electric rates in the continental U.S. You will note some of our criticisms in our filing. The CPUC has retaliated by denying CGNP any intervenor compensation since 2018. Unfortunately, the CPUC lacks an inspector general to investigate complaints of waste, fraud, and abuse. CPUC Decisions are essentially final in most cases because there is no guaranteed appellate pathway for those Decisions. Our lead counsel as an Assemblyman shepherded through a package of CPUC reforms in 2015 with unanimous support from the California Assembly and California Senate, but those reforms were quashed by then Governor Brown.
Given the paltry financial returns to owner PG&E, CGNP's perspective is the only way to guarantee CGNP's long-term financial viability is for PG&E to sell the plant to a qualified buyer. Regrettably, even with a balance sheet presently loaded down with about $58 billion in debt (about twice PG&E's market capitalization,) management refuses to sell DCPP. Since we are outside PG&E, we fail to understand their refusal to sell. Perhaps the CPUC is preventing them from selling the plant as a way to force cessation of DCPP operations.
Where will California get the electricity to power several major, newly built data centers in Silicon Valley, particularly in Santa Clara, that are sitting empty and unpowered due to severe electrical grid capacity shortages, with some facing delays until 2027 or 2028?
Where's the electricity to power over 100 megawatts of capacity that are currently stalled, with Silicon Valley Power, the local utility?
Unfortunately, unless enough pain is felt by the political class for not enacting this legislation, they will not do so. the climate cult is powerful and for whatever reason, they generally remain anti-nuclear, regardless of the consequences. Elections have consequences and Nancy Pelosi reminded us, but until California politicians feel those consequences, i.e.get booted from office for failure to create an environment where power is accessible and affordable, I fear the future for much of California will be much rougher than the past
Thanks. I see it unfolding now. The Leftist elites have demonized nuclear power for the Western industrialized economies as part of the "thought leadership" that weakens the West relative to the Socialist BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - and others.) The BRICS nations can burn as much fossil fuel as they desire to strengthen their economies - for the past several years, China has consumed more coal than the rest of the world combined. The BRICS block can have as much nuclear power as they desire. Such hypocrisy! Note the supply chains for the "approved alternatives" for the West (solar, wind and batteries) all begin in the People's Republic of China. Quite an insane state of affairs.
This Estero Bay News article by Neil Farrell was published on February 13, 2026. "Supervisors Rallying Support for Diablo Canyon."
https://esterobaynews.com/featured-stories/supervisors-rallying-support-for-diablo-canyon/
This detailed article provides information regarding the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors legislative objectives regarding DCPP extended operations. Eight of the nine larger cities in San Luis Obispo County signed on the the County letter.
....The letter “respectfully requests” the Legislature to:
• Support the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulatory approval process and establish a state licensing pathway to authorize DCPP to operate for up to 20 additional years.
• Enact legislation restoring historic pre-decommissioning unitary tax treatment for Diablo Canyon Power Plant including land valuation for the duration of its extended operations or provide alternate equivalent financial mitigations.
• Support the California Coastal Commission’s land conservation and public access plan for lands surrounding Diablo Canyon, in coordination with appropriate regulatory and conservation agencies.
Supervisors asked other agencies to sign on to the letter and some have already done so, as they too have skin in this game.....
CGNP just located a relevant article regarding the low cost of DCPP extended operations on JohnS's Substack. https://schlanj.substack.com/p/the-fascinating-cost-dynamics-of Here is the comment we posted on February 27, 2026.
Thank you for your DCPP cost analysis, John. CPUC intervenor Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. calculated DCPP's 2026 cost in A.25-03-015 to be $21.28/MWh, which is an incredible bargain for the high-quality 24-7-365 reliable power that the plant provides. There are additional relevant details in our Reply Comments dated October 22, 2025. See our filing at https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M585/K485/585485740.PDF
CGNP has frequently "locked horns" with the CPUC since 2018 as a consequence of their anti nuclear power bias. We have attempted novel legal approaches, so far without success. We believe that the CPUC is politically corrupt. It plays a major role in California typically having the most expensive electric rates in the continental U.S. You will note some of our criticisms in our filing. The CPUC has retaliated by denying CGNP any intervenor compensation since 2018. Unfortunately, the CPUC lacks an inspector general to investigate complaints of waste, fraud, and abuse. CPUC Decisions are essentially final in most cases because there is no guaranteed appellate pathway for those Decisions. Our lead counsel as an Assemblyman shepherded through a package of CPUC reforms in 2015 with unanimous support from the California Assembly and California Senate, but those reforms were quashed by then Governor Brown.
Given the paltry financial returns to owner PG&E, CGNP's perspective is the only way to guarantee CGNP's long-term financial viability is for PG&E to sell the plant to a qualified buyer. Regrettably, even with a balance sheet presently loaded down with about $58 billion in debt (about twice PG&E's market capitalization,) management refuses to sell DCPP. Since we are outside PG&E, we fail to understand their refusal to sell. Perhaps the CPUC is preventing them from selling the plant as a way to force cessation of DCPP operations.
Where will California get the electricity to power several major, newly built data centers in Silicon Valley, particularly in Santa Clara, that are sitting empty and unpowered due to severe electrical grid capacity shortages, with some facing delays until 2027 or 2028?
Where's the electricity to power over 100 megawatts of capacity that are currently stalled, with Silicon Valley Power, the local utility?
Unfortunately, unless enough pain is felt by the political class for not enacting this legislation, they will not do so. the climate cult is powerful and for whatever reason, they generally remain anti-nuclear, regardless of the consequences. Elections have consequences and Nancy Pelosi reminded us, but until California politicians feel those consequences, i.e.get booted from office for failure to create an environment where power is accessible and affordable, I fear the future for much of California will be much rougher than the past
Thanks. I see it unfolding now. The Leftist elites have demonized nuclear power for the Western industrialized economies as part of the "thought leadership" that weakens the West relative to the Socialist BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - and others.) The BRICS nations can burn as much fossil fuel as they desire to strengthen their economies - for the past several years, China has consumed more coal than the rest of the world combined. The BRICS block can have as much nuclear power as they desire. Such hypocrisy! Note the supply chains for the "approved alternatives" for the West (solar, wind and batteries) all begin in the People's Republic of China. Quite an insane state of affairs.
Gene,
It seems that some CA based hydro power will be off line for awhile-
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1-rescued-thousands-without-power-after-pipe-break-at-hydroelectric-facility/ar-AA1WkbG1
"The hydroelectric New Colgate Powerhouse produces up to 350 megawatts of electricity, enough to power roughly 350,000 homes."
I'll bet CAISO is working overtime trying to plan for this afternoon's afternoon ramp.
I support your plan to get some legislation to Governor Newsome before he leaves office.