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California’s next climate challenge: Replacing its last nuclear power plant By Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times Published: May 24, 2021, 6:02am Share: Steam is released from reactor No. 1 at Diablo Canyon Power Plant at Avila Beach, Calif., in a May 2000 file image. (Steve Osman/Los Angeles Times/TNS) The twin reactors along California’s Central Coast were nearing completion, and tens of thousands of people had gathered to protest. It was 1979, just months after a partial nuclear meltdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, and a young Jerry Brown — serving his firs...

Dive Brief: Industry groups and ratepayer advocates in California are pushing for a cautious approach toward procuring new resources, as part of the state's bid to prepare the electric system for summer 2021 and avoid a repeat of the rolling blackouts that occurred in August. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) opened a rulemaking in November aimed at addressing potential reliability challenges in 2021, and is considering a host of options including implementing efficiency upgrades to existing power plants. But in comments filed with the agency, some groups questioned the need f...

Jyri Engestrom/Flickr Mike Jacobs, Senior energy analyst | December 11, 2020, 8:30 am EDT The US Energy Information Administration recently reported what many have seen: the Northeast has many newly built gas generators. What is a bit harder to see is that the rules of grid operator PJM that prevent generators from withholding their true capabilities are either not written, or not enforceable. It’s certainly not the laws of physics that made this happen—this is an issue with the governance of the wholesale power markets. UC...