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Advocates, NEI and Unions. Advocates are essential.
Vermont Yankee when it was operatingEntergy withdraws from NEI Entergy and NextEra have announced their withdrawals from the Nuclear Energy Institute....
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The Northeast Grid and the Oil
ISO-NE Report on Cold Weather Grid Performance It was dramatically cold here in the Northeast from late December through January 8. Temperatures of ten below were common. The grid used amazing (30% or...
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The Oil-filled Grid: Communications
Early January Nor'EasterWikimedia, NOAAOil on the Grid About two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post The Northeast Grid and the Oil. This described our early-January polar weather, and how Northeastern...
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ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group meeting March 1
On March 1, the Consumer Liaison Group (CLG) associated with ISO-NE will hold its quarterly meeting near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Meetings are free and open to the public, and include a free lunch....
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President's Day Book Bargain: Prove My Husband Wrong
Campaigning for Clean Air: Limited Time Reduced Price Offer Prove my husband wrong! I told my husband George that I was going to set up a President's Day limited-time reduced-price offer for buying the...
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Having fun with a book sale
Thank you for your orders of Campaigning for Clean Air!I was right, and George was wrong. When I told my husband George that I was going to set up a President's Day reduced-price offer for the...
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Department of Energy: Nuclear policy, nuclear money, and the millennial caucuses
Secretary Rick Perry and Millennial Nuclear Caucus October 2017From Department of Energy websiteMillennials Starting this past fall, I finally noticed that the current Department of Energy was not...
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The Five Best Things About Nuclear (Angwin)
Golden Gate Bridge with light-brown photochemical smog behind it. NOx gives the smog that color.Wikipedia photo by Aaron Logan Nuclear energy makes no smog.The Question: Your Five Best In early...
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(Shaffer) Five Best Things About Nuclear
Five Best Things About Nuclear Energy Suzanne Jaworowski recently asked for input on nuclear communications. Jaworowski is Chief of Staff, Senior Advisor, Office of Nuclear Energy at the Department of...
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(Escu) Five things I like about nuclear power
Five Best Things about Nuclear Energy Suzanne Jaworowski recently asked for input on nuclear communications, specifically for ideas on the best things to communicate about nuclear energy. Jaworowski is...
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Thursday Meeting on Sale of VY to NorthStar
Sign from WikipediaThe Plan for the Sale On Thursday, March 22, the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (NDCAP) will meet to discuss the sale of Vermont Yankee from Entergy to...
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Nuclear Communications, Tribalism, and Kurt Weill
Chatham HouseWikipediaNuclear Communications I just participated in a meeting on nuclear communications: the meeting ran on "Chatham House Rule." According to the Rule, I cannot say who participated in...
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PUC meeting on decomm April 12
sign from WikimediaVermont PUC hearing on NorthStar sale set for April 12 in Brattleboro As I described in a previous blog post, Entergy plans to sell Vermont Yankee to NorthStar for decommissioning....
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Vermont Yankee Sale: Local groups happy, CLF objects again
Almost Everyone Agrees Entergy plans to sell Vermont Yankee to NorthStar for decommissioning. As you can imagine, this plan has led to lots of discussions and hearings, and I have even written a few...
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Rolling Blackouts for New England? Angwin Op-Ed
Mystic Power StationRolling blackouts Rolling blackouts are probably coming to New England sooner than expected. When there’s not enough supply of electricity to meet demand, an electric grid operator...
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Micro and Macro: What is the Energy Future?
Solar panel on a house roof near BostonWikipedia, Gray Watson Everybody knows? Milt Caplan wrote an excellent blog post on the future of energy. He describes attending an event wherea number of...
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The Not-Stressed Grid in Summer
The grid is not stressed The Northeast is using a lot of power, but the grid is not particularly stressed. "Using a lot of power" and "stressed grid" are not the same thing. Many local utilities are...
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The Game of Peaks
Weapons used as props in the Game of ThronesWikimedia By Benjamin Skinstad [CC BY 3.0 ]The Game of Peaks Cutting back on electricity use on the hottest day of the summer is not a moral imperative. It...
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Updated. Batteries at Green Mountain Power: Beating the Peak
Batteries from Wikipedia (Tesla battery images are proprietary)Beating the Peak I wrote recently about The Game of Peaks. This game is a business move, not a moral imperative. Utilities pay a...
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New England Governor's Meeting: Guest post by Guy Page
Toronto, Evening of August 14, 2003, WikipediaOn eve of 15th anniversary of Big Blackout, governors push more reliable power grid By Guy Page AUGUST 13, 2018 - Maybe the timing was just co-incidence....
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Electrification of the Heating Sector: CLG meeting in September
Consumer Liaison Group Meeting in September The purpose of the Consumer Liaison Group (CLG) is to be the voice of the electricity consumer in advising the grid operator, ISO-NE. (I am on the...
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Low Dose Radiation: The Conference in Pasco
Mid Columbia Master Singers perform at the front face of the B reactor Photo courtesy of Energy NorthwestLow Dose Radiation It is generally agreed that high radiation doses can be very harmful....
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Low Dose Radiation: Keynotes, Initials and History
Alan Walter opens the conference. October 1, Pasco WARod Adams post: Rod Adams and I are covering the Low Rad meeting. I urge everyone to read his post (which he posted just a few minutes ago) and...
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Nuclear Science Week Next Week, October 15-19
Nuclear Science Week on a National ScaleNuclear Science Week is a national week-long celebration of all aspects of nuclear science. the Week is nationwide, and various areas plan local events. For...
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"The New Fire" as Shown in Vermont
David Schumacher, director of The New Fire, with me We are sitting in front of The New Fire poster at the Vermont International Film FestivalShowing The New Fire in Vermont The movie The New Fire was...
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