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Nuclear Go-Round: NuScale, Vogtle, Palisades

By Kennedy Maize -- October 17, 2023

Ed. note: Nuclear Power is a much talked about technology in the current climate debate. Electricity veteran Ken Maize of Quad Report provides an update on three current nuclear issues: a new, mysterious NuScale power agreement; Plant Vogtle legal restitution; and the recommissioned 805-MW Palisades plant in Michigan.

NuScale’s Mystery Deal

NuScale Power has landed a deal with privately-owned blockchain data center developer Standard Power to provide two planned data centers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 924-MW each, with electricity from arrays of NuScale’s 77-MW VOYGR small modular reactors, 12 for each data center. NuScale’s partner ENTRA1 Energy has the exclusive rights to develop, manage, own and operate energy production plants powered by NuScale’s SMRs.

NuScale (founded 2007) and ENTRA1 created an exclusive global partnership in 2022 to commercialize NuScale’s small modular reactors (SMRs). …

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Net Zero Not! Protest from the UK Grassroots

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 16, 2023

“What we now have instead are vast centralised wind and solar power stations distributed outside of population centres, and quite distant to the eventual market for the third-rate power that is being produced. This is the exact opposite of the original proposals for distributed power located within population centres.

The public is up in arms against the great ruse “energy transformation,” predicted on climate alarmism and at odds with energy density (pushing dilute, intermittent inferiors). Here in the U.S., Robert Bryce’s databank of delayed/cancelled wind or solar projects is above 580 projects. I have personally argued that even if such a project is on private land, the taxpayer enablement gives standing to the locals who decry the project for other reasons (noise, lower property values, drainage, etc.). The fact that land and neighbors were there first means no homestead right to the rent-seeker.…

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Wind and Solar Bribes: The Taxpayer Pays

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 13, 2023

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Stealth Electricity Statism: Giberson Exchange (for the record)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 12, 2023
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Giberson on Negative Wind Pricing (2008)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 11, 2023
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Electric Grid Reliability: Texas vs. EPA

By Ed Ireland -- October 10, 2023
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Energy and Environmental Review: October 9, 2023

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Government over U.S. Oil and Gas: A Summary

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 6, 2023
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CO2 Greening: Getting Back to the Basics

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 5, 2023
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ERCOT Readies ‘Retired’ Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak

By Ed Ireland -- October 4, 2023
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