Did you know the latest NERC report is out?
December 19th, 2013
Yes, it’s the long awaited North American Electric Reliability Corporations Long-Term Reliability Assessment! Usually it comes out in October, and this year, December? Go figure.
In particular, check out the charts showing the most impressive reserve margins (click for larger version) starting on p. 15 of the report (22 of the pdf):
The section on MISO begins on p. 52 of the report.
As my buddy at ATC would say, “Cuddle up with your Kindle!”
Silica sand… Power Plant Siting Act…
December 18th, 2013
Another long day… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hollydale Withdrawal moving forward
December 17th, 2013
We’ll be having a phone conference about Xcel Energy/GRE’s request to withdraw their Certificate of Need and the Administrative Law Judge will probably certify it to the Public Utilities Commission, meaning he will forward it to the Commission to make a decision.
Filings, in order of appearance:
Xcel/GRE Hollydale Withdrawal Petition
Now, on to the conference call…
Must read: Klayman v. Obama
December 17th, 2013
This case just came down yesterday:
If you’re at all interested in “certain intelligence-gathering practices by the United States government relating to the wholesale collection of the phone record metadata of all U.S. citizens,” than you MUST read this. And if you’re not interested, well, you should be. So READ THIS!
Transcript of NRC’s Nuclear Waste meeting is out!
December 13th, 2013
The transcript from last week’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting-not-hearing regarding the Nuclear Waste Confidence GEIS and Rulemaking (click HERE for that NRC page) is out:
Comments are being solicited on the proposed rule (at the very end of the Federal Register notice below) and the Generic Environmental Impact Statement:
Once more with feeling, comments are due soon, so get cracking! Send comments by December 20, 2013:
• Email comments to: Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you do not receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact us at 301–415–1677.
And check out these ditties that I put into the record. My nuclear stuff is all over at the other house, and it’s been so long that I can’t remember all that I’ve forgotten, so much about casks, and it’s really offensive that nearly 20 years later we’re still having to dredge up all the info about how it’s just not reasonable to think we can store it safely for any length of time, much less 100 years on-site, in “temporary” storage, or tens of thousands of years…