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Deregulation Without Direction: How Maryland’s Energy Debate Mirrors a National Problem
One of the biggest challenges facing deregulated states like Maryland, New York, and Illinois is that, while they’ve adopted renewable energy standards and climate policies, they’ve failed to implement meaningful system planning with enforceable requirements for utilities to actually meet those goals. California, by contrast, has taken a much more structured approach. The California Public……
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Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato
On Tuesday, the White House announced an $80 billion deal with Westinghouse to finance construction of eight large new reactors in the U.S. There is not enough in the way of actual details about the deal, resulting in even more unanswered questions. But the promise of a large, direct investment in a pack of new……
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Same Playbook, Same Problems: The BWRX-300 and the Nuclear Cost Mirage
GE-Hitachi opted to pursue its first BWRX-300 project in Canada because CNC’s regulations allow construction permit applications to be submitted with much of the design still incomplete. Last year, GE-H and TVA tried to get the NRC to “align” its requirements for a construction permit application with CNC’s less stringent standards, but NRC refused. The……
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