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Schulman dismissed the complaint, agreeing with the company that Friends of the Earth was asking the court to “impermissibly hinder or interfere” with state regulatory oversight of the seaside plant, located midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the group’s request was granted, the court would be placed in conflict with state regulators, and it would “enmesh the court in complex questions of energy, economic and environmental policy” that are best handled by the California Public Utilities Commission and other agencies, Schulman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said it might appeal.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hallie Templeton, legal director, Friends of the Earth\"]‘The fight to shutter Diablo Canyon is not over.’[/pullquote]“The fight to shutter Diablo Canyon is not over,” Hallie Templeton, legal director for Friends of the Earth, said in a statement. 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The company intends to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of the year to extend operations by as much as two decades.[aside postID=science_1982651 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/str_nifFusion_v002-1020x649.png']California is the birthplace of the modern environmental movement and for decades has had a fraught relationship with nuclear power, which doesn’t produce carbon pollution like fossil fuels but leaves behind waste that can remain \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/radwaste.html\">dangerously radioactive for centuries\u003c/a>. The Newsom administration is pushing to expand solar power and other clean energy as the state aims to cut emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision last year \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-gavin-newsom-climate-and-environment-4968ee9da7fd1d10ad67bfdf03950873\">to support a longer operating run\u003c/a> for Diablo Canyon shocked environmentalists and anti-nuclear advocates because he had once been a leading voice for closing the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit represented another mile-marker in a long-running fight over the operation and safety of the decades-old plant, which Newsom says should keep running beyond 2025 to ward off possible blackouts as California transitions to solar and other renewable energy sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon produces 9% of the state’s electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this juncture, it’s not clear if the reactors will continue operating beyond the expiration of their licenses in 2024 and 2025 — and if so, for how long — since many regulatory and legal hurdles remain. [aside label='More on Clean Energy' tag='clean-energy'] For example, it’s not yet publicly known what it will cost to update the plant for a longer run given that PG&E was preparing to close it for years. The state could consider backing out if capital costs climb over $1.4 billion \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> —\u003c/span> the amount of a forgivable loan the state authorized for PG&E last year as part of the legislative plan to keep the reactors running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction at Diablo Canyon began in the 1960s. Critics say potential earthquakes from nearby faults not known to exist when the design was approved \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/a8e61684b8e54fb7b9c8523cad84a9b5\">could damage equipment and release radiation.\u003c/a> One fault was not discovered until 2008. PG&E has long said the plant is safe, an assessment the NRC has supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. nuclear industry has been through a tough stretch, with reactors retiring and its share of energy production slipping since 2012. But many industry leaders \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-utilities-nuclear-power-climate-and-environment-23357f4087988a9d21fe714e5660838b\">see a renaissance on the horizon,\u003c/a> as climate change has brought attention to carbon-free power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A California judge rejected an environmental group's lawsuit that aimed to block PG&E from extending the operating life of the state's last nuclear power plant.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1692984993,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":831},"headData":{"title":"Environmental Group Loses Latest Legal Battle to Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant | KQED","description":"A California judge rejected an environmental group's lawsuit that aimed to block PG&E from extending the operating life of the state's last nuclear power plant.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Environmental Group Loses Latest Legal Battle to Shut Down Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant","datePublished":"2023-08-25T00:03:43.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-25T17:36:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MichaelRBloodAP\">Michael R. Blood\u003c/a>\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11959091/environmental-group-loses-legal-battle-to-shut-down-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A California judge on Thursday rejected an environmental group’s lawsuit that sought to block the state’s largest utility from seeking to extend the operating life of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of the Earth \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/diablo-canyon-nuclear-extension-california-reactors-pge-cd398f8251311053b08aa8fbfcfa8ef4\">sued in state Superior Court\u003c/a> in April, hoping to derail a state-backed proposal to keep the twin-domed plant running for at least five additional years. The group was part of a 2016 agreement with operator Pacific Gas & Electric to shutter the state’s last nuclear power plant by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid concerns over power supplies in a changing climate, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-sacramento-gavin-newsom-81edef684cf0c15f2940db7ff66eb8b2\">opened the way\u003c/a> for PG&E to seek a longer lifespan last year. In legal filings, the environmental group argued that the 2016 deal to close the reactors “is not fully extinguished,” and that the utility would break what it called a binding contract if it asked federal regulators to extend the operating licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an 18-page ruling, Judge Ethan P. Schulman dismissed the complaint, agreeing with the company that Friends of the Earth was asking the court to “impermissibly hinder or interfere” with state regulatory oversight of the seaside plant, located midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the group’s request was granted, the court would be placed in conflict with state regulators, and it would “enmesh the court in complex questions of energy, economic and environmental policy” that are best handled by the California Public Utilities Commission and other agencies, Schulman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said it might appeal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The fight to shutter Diablo Canyon is not over.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Hallie Templeton, legal director, Friends of the Earth","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The fight to shutter Diablo Canyon is not over,” Hallie Templeton, legal director for Friends of the Earth, said in a statement. The group has a separate case pending in federal court involving regulatory issues tied to the plant’s operation and possible extension of the licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PG&E spokesperson Suzanne Hosn said the company is following California energy policy “and our actions toward relicensing Diablo Canyon Power Plant are consistent with the direction of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operating license for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactors/diab1.html\">the Unit 1 reactor\u003c/a> expires next year, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactors/diab2.html\">Unit 2\u003c/a> license expires in 2025. The company intends to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of the year to extend operations by as much as two decades.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1982651","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/str_nifFusion_v002-1020x649.png","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California is the birthplace of the modern environmental movement and for decades has had a fraught relationship with nuclear power, which doesn’t produce carbon pollution like fossil fuels but leaves behind waste that can remain \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/radwaste.html\">dangerously radioactive for centuries\u003c/a>. The Newsom administration is pushing to expand solar power and other clean energy as the state aims to cut emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision last year \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-gavin-newsom-climate-and-environment-4968ee9da7fd1d10ad67bfdf03950873\">to support a longer operating run\u003c/a> for Diablo Canyon shocked environmentalists and anti-nuclear advocates because he had once been a leading voice for closing the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit represented another mile-marker in a long-running fight over the operation and safety of the decades-old plant, which Newsom says should keep running beyond 2025 to ward off possible blackouts as California transitions to solar and other renewable energy sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon produces 9% of the state’s electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this juncture, it’s not clear if the reactors will continue operating beyond the expiration of their licenses in 2024 and 2025 — and if so, for how long — since many regulatory and legal hurdles remain. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Clean Energy ","tag":"clean-energy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> For example, it’s not yet publicly known what it will cost to update the plant for a longer run given that PG&E was preparing to close it for years. The state could consider backing out if capital costs climb over $1.4 billion \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> —\u003c/span> the amount of a forgivable loan the state authorized for PG&E last year as part of the legislative plan to keep the reactors running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction at Diablo Canyon began in the 1960s. Critics say potential earthquakes from nearby faults not known to exist when the design was approved \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/a8e61684b8e54fb7b9c8523cad84a9b5\">could damage equipment and release radiation.\u003c/a> One fault was not discovered until 2008. PG&E has long said the plant is safe, an assessment the NRC has supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. nuclear industry has been through a tough stretch, with reactors retiring and its share of energy production slipping since 2012. But many industry leaders \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-utilities-nuclear-power-climate-and-environment-23357f4087988a9d21fe714e5660838b\">see a renaissance on the horizon,\u003c/a> as climate change has brought attention to carbon-free power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11959091/environmental-group-loses-legal-battle-to-shut-down-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant","authors":["byline_news_11959091"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18538","news_1068","news_1029","news_1069","news_140","news_3187"],"featImg":"news_11959099","label":"news"},"news_11939087":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11939087","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11939087","score":null,"sort":[1674681973000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feds-refuse-pge-request-to-speed-up-diablo-canyon-relicensing","title":"Feds Refuse PG&E Request to Speed Up Diablo Canyon Relicensing","publishDate":1674681973,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In pointed language, federal regulators rebuffed a request Tuesday from the operator of California’s last nuclear power plant that could have smoothed its pathway to securing a longer operating life for its twin reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision marks the latest skirmish in a long-running fight over the operation and safety of the decades-old Diablo Canyon plant, which Gov. Gavin Newsom says should keep running beyond a scheduled 2025 closure to ward off possible blackouts as the state transitions to solar and other renewable sources.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diane Curran, attorney, Mothers for Peace\"]'What PG&E is asking for is clearly inconsistent with the NRC regulations.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, PG&E asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resume consideration of an application initially submitted in 2009 to extend the plant’s life, which later was withdrawn after PG&E in 2016 announced plans to shutter the reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under existing rules, the operating licenses for the sister reactors expire in 2024 and 2025, at which time they would be forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turnaround came in September after the Democratic governor and the Legislature voided the 2016 agreement to close the plant and opened the way for PG&E to seek a longer operating run from federal regulators.[aside postID=\"science_1980149,news_11922354\" label=\"Related Posts\"]The NRC staff bluntly rejected the idea of going back in time to resume consideration of the previous license-extension plan, saying that “resuming this review would not be consistent with ... the Principles of Good Regulation,” referring to its guiding values, including independence and openness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would not be effective or efficient for the NRC staff to start the review” without updated information on the plant’s status and condition, the agency wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, PG&E said it would produce a new application to extend the plant’s life by two decades — the typical term — by the end of 2023, and had been planning for that possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Curran, attorney for the antinuclear advocacy group Mothers for Peace, said the utility was attempting to “make an end run around a pretty well-established set of regulations and policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What PG&E is asking for is clearly inconsistent with the NRC regulations,” Curran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, separate fight is looming over PG&E’s request to allow the plant to continue running beyond its current, authorized term while the federal agency considers the license extensions. The agency did not rule on that request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's decision last year to support a longer operating run for Diablo Canyon shocked environmentalists and antinuclear advocates, since he had once been a leading voice for closing the plant located on a coastal bluff midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His turnaround also restarted a long-running debate over seismic safety at the site. Construction at Diablo Canyon began in the 1960s. Critics say potential shaking from nearby earthquake faults not recognized when the design was first approved — one nearby fault was not discovered until 2008 — could damage equipment and release radiation. PG&E has long said the plant is safe, an assessment that the NRC has supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also unknown is how much it will cost to update the plant for a longer run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the plant is relicensed, “there will be new maintenance activities to perform to support extended operations,” the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have depicted the plan as a huge financial giveaway for PG&E, while warning it would gut state environmental safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration is pushing to expand clean energy, as the state aims to cut emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Nuclear power doesn’t produce carbon pollution like fossil fuels, but leaves behind waste that can remain dangerously radioactive for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon produces 9% of the state’s electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal regulators have rejected a request from the operator of California's last nuclear power plant that could have smoothed its pathway to securing a longer operating life.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1674681973,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":667},"headData":{"title":"Feds Refuse PG&E Request to Speed Up Diablo Canyon Relicensing | KQED","description":"Federal regulators have rejected a request from the operator of California's last nuclear power plant that could have smoothed its pathway to securing a longer operating life.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Feds Refuse PG&E Request to Speed Up Diablo Canyon Relicensing","datePublished":"2023-01-25T21:26:13.000Z","dateModified":"2023-01-25T21:26:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"Michael R. Blood\u003cbr />Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11939087/feds-refuse-pge-request-to-speed-up-diablo-canyon-relicensing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In pointed language, federal regulators rebuffed a request Tuesday from the operator of California’s last nuclear power plant that could have smoothed its pathway to securing a longer operating life for its twin reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision marks the latest skirmish in a long-running fight over the operation and safety of the decades-old Diablo Canyon plant, which Gov. Gavin Newsom says should keep running beyond a scheduled 2025 closure to ward off possible blackouts as the state transitions to solar and other renewable sources.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'What PG&E is asking for is clearly inconsistent with the NRC regulations.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Diane Curran, attorney, Mothers for Peace","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, PG&E asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resume consideration of an application initially submitted in 2009 to extend the plant’s life, which later was withdrawn after PG&E in 2016 announced plans to shutter the reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under existing rules, the operating licenses for the sister reactors expire in 2024 and 2025, at which time they would be forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turnaround came in September after the Democratic governor and the Legislature voided the 2016 agreement to close the plant and opened the way for PG&E to seek a longer operating run from federal regulators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1980149,news_11922354","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The NRC staff bluntly rejected the idea of going back in time to resume consideration of the previous license-extension plan, saying that “resuming this review would not be consistent with ... the Principles of Good Regulation,” referring to its guiding values, including independence and openness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would not be effective or efficient for the NRC staff to start the review” without updated information on the plant’s status and condition, the agency wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, PG&E said it would produce a new application to extend the plant’s life by two decades — the typical term — by the end of 2023, and had been planning for that possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Curran, attorney for the antinuclear advocacy group Mothers for Peace, said the utility was attempting to “make an end run around a pretty well-established set of regulations and policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What PG&E is asking for is clearly inconsistent with the NRC regulations,” Curran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, separate fight is looming over PG&E’s request to allow the plant to continue running beyond its current, authorized term while the federal agency considers the license extensions. The agency did not rule on that request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's decision last year to support a longer operating run for Diablo Canyon shocked environmentalists and antinuclear advocates, since he had once been a leading voice for closing the plant located on a coastal bluff midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His turnaround also restarted a long-running debate over seismic safety at the site. Construction at Diablo Canyon began in the 1960s. Critics say potential shaking from nearby earthquake faults not recognized when the design was first approved — one nearby fault was not discovered until 2008 — could damage equipment and release radiation. PG&E has long said the plant is safe, an assessment that the NRC has supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also unknown is how much it will cost to update the plant for a longer run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the plant is relicensed, “there will be new maintenance activities to perform to support extended operations,” the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have depicted the plan as a huge financial giveaway for PG&E, while warning it would gut state environmental safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration is pushing to expand clean energy, as the state aims to cut emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Nuclear power doesn’t produce carbon pollution like fossil fuels, but leaves behind waste that can remain dangerously radioactive for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon produces 9% of the state’s electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11939087/feds-refuse-pge-request-to-speed-up-diablo-canyon-relicensing","authors":["byline_news_11939087"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1068","news_1069","news_32335","news_140"],"featImg":"news_11912857","label":"news"},"news_11924367":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11924367","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11924367","score":null,"sort":[1662057941000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant","title":"California Lawmakers Extend the Life of the State's Last Nuclear Power Plant","publishDate":1662057941,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Citing searing summer temperatures and expected energy shortages, California lawmakers approved legislation aimed at extending the life of the state's last-operating nuclear power plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Diablo Canyon plant - the state's largest single source of electricity - had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/21/482997213/californias-last-nuclear-power-plant-to-be-shut-down\">slated to shutter\u003c/a> by 2025. The last-minute proposal passed by the state legislature early Thursday could keep it open five years longer, in part by giving the plant's owner, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a $1.4 billion forgivable loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, like other U.S. states and countries, has been struggling to reduce its climate-warming emissions while adapting to a rapidly warming world. Record-breaking heat waves have stressed the state's increasingly carbon-free electrical grid in recent years, triggering rolling blackouts as recently as 2020. Grid operators, fearing a similar crash, issued a statewide alert to conserve energy last month.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"diablo-canyon\"]The state has set the goal of getting \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/10/646373423/california-sets-goal-of-100-percent-renewable-electric-power-by-2045\">100 percent\u003c/a> of its electricity from clean and renewable sources by 2045. Advocates for Diablo Canyon claim that target will be difficult to achieve without the 2,250 megawatt nuclear power plant. Diablo Canyon generated \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2021-total-system-electric-generation\">nearly 9 percent\u003c/a> of the state's electricity last year and roughly 15 percent of the state's clean energy production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining operations at Diablo Canyon will keep our power on while preventing millions of tons of carbon from being released into the atmosphere,\" said Isabelle Boemeke of the group Save Clean Energy. \"This is a true win-win for the people of California and our planet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuclear power has seen a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1108264499/nuclear-power-gains-support-years-decline-hurdles\">resurgence\u003c/a> in recent years as the climate crisis has worsened and governments increase efforts to cut climate-warming emissions. The Biden administration launched a $6 billion effort earlier this year aimed at keeping the country's aging nuclear plants running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have no doubt, President Biden is serious about doing everything possible to get the U.S. to be powered by clean energy,\" Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff told attendees at a nuclear energy assembly in Washington, D.C., earlier this summer. \"Nuclear energy is really essential to this,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly one-fifth of the country's electricity comes from nuclear power plants. That's as much as all other clean energy sources combined. But nuclear power isn't without its warts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite decades of debate and billions of dollars spent, the U.S. still does not have a permanent storage site for its growing amount of nuclear waste. Diablo Canyon, located on California's Central Coast, sits near several seismic fault lines, inspiring long-held fears of a nuclear disaster similar to the kind experienced in Fukushima, Japan in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has long maintained that Diablo Canyon is safe from tsunamis, earthquakes and flooding. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897239/californias-last-nuclear-plant-is-slated-to-close-in-2025-why-some-scientists-worry-thats-bad-news-for-carbon-emissions\">concerns remain\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliet Christian-Smith, a regional director at the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates an earthquake-induced accident could cause more than $100 billion in damages and 10,000 cancer deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bill ignores the plant's environmental impacts and vulnerability to earthquakes,\" she said. \"Safety cannot take a back seat in our quest to keep the lights on and reduce global warming emissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill now heads to Governor Newsom's desk where he's expected to sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1119778975/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant\">This story was first published in NPR.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While the Diablo Canyon plant was initially set to close in 2025, this bill would keep it running until 2030.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1662058511,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":559},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Extend the Life of the State's Last Nuclear Power Plant | KQED","description":"While the Diablo Canyon plant was initially set to close in 2025, this bill would keep it running until 2030.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Lawmakers Extend the Life of the State's Last Nuclear Power Plant","datePublished":"2022-09-01T18:45:41.000Z","dateModified":"2022-09-01T18:55:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11924367 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11924367","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/09/01/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant/","disqusTitle":"California Lawmakers Extend the Life of the State's Last Nuclear Power Plant","nprByline":"Nathan Rott","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11924367/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Citing searing summer temperatures and expected energy shortages, California lawmakers approved legislation aimed at extending the life of the state's last-operating nuclear power plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Diablo Canyon plant - the state's largest single source of electricity - had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/21/482997213/californias-last-nuclear-power-plant-to-be-shut-down\">slated to shutter\u003c/a> by 2025. The last-minute proposal passed by the state legislature early Thursday could keep it open five years longer, in part by giving the plant's owner, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a $1.4 billion forgivable loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, like other U.S. states and countries, has been struggling to reduce its climate-warming emissions while adapting to a rapidly warming world. Record-breaking heat waves have stressed the state's increasingly carbon-free electrical grid in recent years, triggering rolling blackouts as recently as 2020. Grid operators, fearing a similar crash, issued a statewide alert to conserve energy last month.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"diablo-canyon"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state has set the goal of getting \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/10/646373423/california-sets-goal-of-100-percent-renewable-electric-power-by-2045\">100 percent\u003c/a> of its electricity from clean and renewable sources by 2045. Advocates for Diablo Canyon claim that target will be difficult to achieve without the 2,250 megawatt nuclear power plant. Diablo Canyon generated \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2021-total-system-electric-generation\">nearly 9 percent\u003c/a> of the state's electricity last year and roughly 15 percent of the state's clean energy production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining operations at Diablo Canyon will keep our power on while preventing millions of tons of carbon from being released into the atmosphere,\" said Isabelle Boemeke of the group Save Clean Energy. \"This is a true win-win for the people of California and our planet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuclear power has seen a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1108264499/nuclear-power-gains-support-years-decline-hurdles\">resurgence\u003c/a> in recent years as the climate crisis has worsened and governments increase efforts to cut climate-warming emissions. The Biden administration launched a $6 billion effort earlier this year aimed at keeping the country's aging nuclear plants running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have no doubt, President Biden is serious about doing everything possible to get the U.S. to be powered by clean energy,\" Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff told attendees at a nuclear energy assembly in Washington, D.C., earlier this summer. \"Nuclear energy is really essential to this,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly one-fifth of the country's electricity comes from nuclear power plants. That's as much as all other clean energy sources combined. But nuclear power isn't without its warts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite decades of debate and billions of dollars spent, the U.S. still does not have a permanent storage site for its growing amount of nuclear waste. Diablo Canyon, located on California's Central Coast, sits near several seismic fault lines, inspiring long-held fears of a nuclear disaster similar to the kind experienced in Fukushima, Japan in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has long maintained that Diablo Canyon is safe from tsunamis, earthquakes and flooding. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897239/californias-last-nuclear-plant-is-slated-to-close-in-2025-why-some-scientists-worry-thats-bad-news-for-carbon-emissions\">concerns remain\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliet Christian-Smith, a regional director at the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates an earthquake-induced accident could cause more than $100 billion in damages and 10,000 cancer deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bill ignores the plant's environmental impacts and vulnerability to earthquakes,\" she said. \"Safety cannot take a back seat in our quest to keep the lights on and reduce global warming emissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill now heads to Governor Newsom's desk where he's expected to sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1119778975/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant\">This story was first published in NPR.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11924367/california-lawmakers-extend-the-life-of-the-states-last-nuclear-power-plant","authors":["byline_news_11924367"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_1625","news_21349","news_1068","news_16","news_1069"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11924377","label":"news_253"},"news_11922354":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11922354","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11922354","score":null,"sort":[1660334946000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-officials-face-growing-pressure-to-decide-future-of-diablo-canyon-nuclear-power-plant","title":"Amid Grid and Climate Challenges, Newsom Moves to Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open","publishDate":1660334946,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:05 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed extending the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by at least 5 to 10 years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate-change era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a complex agreement struck between state agencies, labor unions, environmentalists and plant owner PG&E, the plant was scheduled to shut down by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration's draft proposal, obtained by The Associated Press, includes a possible state loan to PG&E of as much as $1.4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was confirmed by Newsom spokesman Anthony York. The bill says impacts of climate change are occurring sooner than anticipated and are simultaneously driving up electrical demand while reducing power supplies.[aside postID=\"news_11897239,news_11681597,science_801694\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“The governor has been clear for months about the potential need to extend the life of Diablo Canyon,” York said. He added that Newsom's administration has stressed the need to keep all options on the table to maintain reliable power and that “this proposal reflects the continued need to keep that flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal said the continued operation of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant beyond 2025 is “critical to ensure statewide energy system reliability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuclear power doesn’t produce carbon pollution like fossil fuels do, but it does leave behind waste that remains dangerously radioactive for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant has been controversial from its very inception more than half a century ago. Opponents have cited seismic risks at the plant site, the facility's impact on the local marine environment and potential health risks to nearby communities. More recently, critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681597/business-group-asks-state-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-diablo-canyon-safety\">raised questions\u003c/a> about whether the aging plant is safe to run indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom proposal was obtained just hours ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/event/workshop/2022-08/joint-agency-workshop-diablo-canyon-power-plant\">a Friday afternoon California Energy Commission meeting\u003c/a> on the state’s energy needs and the role that the seaside plant near San Luis Obispo might play in meeting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's plan was met by immediate criticism from environmentalists who called it a huge financial giveaway for PG&E that pushes aside state environmental safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the state would “give PG&E over $1 billion in loans at below the interest rate even state agencies charge among themselves,” said David Weisman, legislative director of the \u003ca href=\"http://a4nr.org/\">Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility\u003c/a>, a San Luis Obispo County group that has fought to close Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Touching on the fact that PG&E's service area is concentrated in Northern California, Weisman asked: “What are taxpayers in Southern California getting out of this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the plan would provide sweeping exemptions from environmental rules, including the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This draft was prepared by someone with little understanding of California energy policy or history,” Cavanagh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature has less than three weeks to determine if it will take an extraordinary step and attempt to extend the life of the plant — a decision that would be made amid looming questions over the cost, who would pay and earthquake safety risks.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ralph Cavanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council\"]'This draft was prepared by someone with little understanding of California energy policy or history'[/pullquote]The legislative session ends Aug. 31 — when all business is suspended — and only a rare special session called by Newsom could provide a longer period to consider the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor, who is seen as a possible future White House candidate, has urged PG&E for months to pursue a longer run beyond a scheduled closing by 2025, warning that the plant's power is needed to maintain reliable service as the state transitions to solar, wind and other renewable sources of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those raising questions with Newsom include state Sen. John Laird, a Santa Cruz Democrat whose district extends down the coast and includes the seaside power plant near San Luis Obispo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the plant is kept open, “Who pays, and is there fairness in who pays?” Laird asked in an interview. “There have been additional earthquake faults discovered near the plant, and seismic upgrades were never totally completed. Will they address that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laird outlined other issues too, including who would pay for maintenance that has been put off because the plant is scheduled to close by 2025; whether there is time for PG&E to order and receive additional radioactive fuel and casks to store spent fuel; and whether electricity from the reactors would get in the way of transmission for wind power that is expected to come on line in coming years, adding that it could cost billions to keep the plant running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are under a tight time-frame,” Laird said. “That begs the question of could they do everything it needs to be extended by 2025?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really waiting to see whether ... and how they address all the issues that are associated with a possible extension before I decide what I’m going to do,” Laird said, referring to a possible vote.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz\"]'There have been additional earthquake faults discovered near the plant, and seismic upgrades were never totally completed. Will they address that?'[/pullquote]For Diablo Canyon, the issue is whether the Newsom administration, in concert with investor-owned PG&E, can find a way to reverse the 2016 agreement among environmentalists, plant worker unions and the utility to close the plant by 2025. The joint decision to shut down the facility was also endorsed by California utility regulators, the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E CEO Patti Poppe told investors in a call last month that state legislation would have to be enacted by September to open the way for PG&E to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which has long said the plant is seismically safe, hasn’t said much about whether it will push to extend operations beyond 2025. It is assessing that possibility while continuing to plan for closing and dismantling the plant “unless those actions are superseded by new state policies,” PG&E spokesperson Suzanne Hosn said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's push for a longer run for the reactors doesn't square easily with his assessment in 2016, when as lieutenant governor he supported the closure agreement as part of the State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seismic issues at the plant “are not insignificant concerns,” he said at the time. “This is not the preeminent site if you’re ... concerned about seismic safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Draft bill from governor's office would loan PG&E up to $1.4 billion to keep the aging power plant running for up to a decade beyond its planned 2025 closure date.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1661212938,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1140},"headData":{"title":"Amid Grid and Climate Challenges, Newsom Moves to Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open | KQED","description":"Draft bill from governor's office would loan PG&E up to $1.4 billion to keep the aging power plant running for up to a decade beyond its planned 2025 closure date.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Amid Grid and Climate Challenges, Newsom Moves to Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open","datePublished":"2022-08-12T20:09:06.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-23T00:02:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11922354 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11922354","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/12/state-officials-face-growing-pressure-to-decide-future-of-diablo-canyon-nuclear-power-plant/","disqusTitle":"Amid Grid and Climate Challenges, Newsom Moves to Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open","nprByline":"Michael R. Blood, Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11922354/state-officials-face-growing-pressure-to-decide-future-of-diablo-canyon-nuclear-power-plant","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:05 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed extending the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by at least 5 to 10 years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate-change era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a complex agreement struck between state agencies, labor unions, environmentalists and plant owner PG&E, the plant was scheduled to shut down by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration's draft proposal, obtained by The Associated Press, includes a possible state loan to PG&E of as much as $1.4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was confirmed by Newsom spokesman Anthony York. The bill says impacts of climate change are occurring sooner than anticipated and are simultaneously driving up electrical demand while reducing power supplies.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11897239,news_11681597,science_801694","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The governor has been clear for months about the potential need to extend the life of Diablo Canyon,” York said. He added that Newsom's administration has stressed the need to keep all options on the table to maintain reliable power and that “this proposal reflects the continued need to keep that flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal said the continued operation of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant beyond 2025 is “critical to ensure statewide energy system reliability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuclear power doesn’t produce carbon pollution like fossil fuels do, but it does leave behind waste that remains dangerously radioactive for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant has been controversial from its very inception more than half a century ago. Opponents have cited seismic risks at the plant site, the facility's impact on the local marine environment and potential health risks to nearby communities. More recently, critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681597/business-group-asks-state-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-diablo-canyon-safety\">raised questions\u003c/a> about whether the aging plant is safe to run indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom proposal was obtained just hours ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/event/workshop/2022-08/joint-agency-workshop-diablo-canyon-power-plant\">a Friday afternoon California Energy Commission meeting\u003c/a> on the state’s energy needs and the role that the seaside plant near San Luis Obispo might play in meeting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's plan was met by immediate criticism from environmentalists who called it a huge financial giveaway for PG&E that pushes aside state environmental safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the state would “give PG&E over $1 billion in loans at below the interest rate even state agencies charge among themselves,” said David Weisman, legislative director of the \u003ca href=\"http://a4nr.org/\">Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility\u003c/a>, a San Luis Obispo County group that has fought to close Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Touching on the fact that PG&E's service area is concentrated in Northern California, Weisman asked: “What are taxpayers in Southern California getting out of this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the plan would provide sweeping exemptions from environmental rules, including the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This draft was prepared by someone with little understanding of California energy policy or history,” Cavanagh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature has less than three weeks to determine if it will take an extraordinary step and attempt to extend the life of the plant — a decision that would be made amid looming questions over the cost, who would pay and earthquake safety risks.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This draft was prepared by someone with little understanding of California energy policy or history'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ralph Cavanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The legislative session ends Aug. 31 — when all business is suspended — and only a rare special session called by Newsom could provide a longer period to consider the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor, who is seen as a possible future White House candidate, has urged PG&E for months to pursue a longer run beyond a scheduled closing by 2025, warning that the plant's power is needed to maintain reliable service as the state transitions to solar, wind and other renewable sources of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those raising questions with Newsom include state Sen. 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Will they address that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laird outlined other issues too, including who would pay for maintenance that has been put off because the plant is scheduled to close by 2025; whether there is time for PG&E to order and receive additional radioactive fuel and casks to store spent fuel; and whether electricity from the reactors would get in the way of transmission for wind power that is expected to come on line in coming years, adding that it could cost billions to keep the plant running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are under a tight time-frame,” Laird said. “That begs the question of could they do everything it needs to be extended by 2025?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really waiting to see whether ... and how they address all the issues that are associated with a possible extension before I decide what I’m going to do,” Laird said, referring to a possible vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There have been additional earthquake faults discovered near the plant, and seismic upgrades were never totally completed. 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It is assessing that possibility while continuing to plan for closing and dismantling the plant “unless those actions are superseded by new state policies,” PG&E spokesperson Suzanne Hosn said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's push for a longer run for the reactors doesn't square easily with his assessment in 2016, when as lieutenant governor he supported the closure agreement as part of the State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seismic issues at the plant “are not insignificant concerns,” he said at the time. “This is not the preeminent site if you’re ... concerned about seismic safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11922354/state-officials-face-growing-pressure-to-decide-future-of-diablo-canyon-nuclear-power-plant","authors":["byline_news_11922354"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_1068","news_16","news_31444","news_1069","news_140"],"featImg":"news_11912857","label":"news"},"news_11897239":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11897239","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11897239","score":null,"sort":[1637787023000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-last-nuclear-plant-is-slated-to-close-in-2025-why-some-scientists-worry-thats-bad-news-for-carbon-emissions","title":"California's Last Nuclear Plant Is Slated to Close by 2025. Why Some Scientists Worry That Could Be Bad News for Carbon Emissions","publishDate":1637787023,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The massive 2,200-megawatt Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the last-standing nuclear power facility in California, is scheduled to fully shut down operations by 2025, ending the state's reliance on nuclear energy. Some energy experts, though, warn that shuttering the plant — a goal long sought by anti-nuclear advocates — could ultimately lead to a spike in the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://energy.stanford.edu/publications/assessment-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-zero-carbon-electricity-desalination-and\">a recent report from researchers at Stanford Energy\u003c/a>, shuttering the San Luis Obispo County facility, which opened in 1985 in the face of fierce opposition, would likely make the state more dependent on natural gas for its electricity production. Natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a climate-warming gas more potent than carbon dioxide when released into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='climate-change']The report's findings spurred the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/closing-californias-last-nuclear-power-plant-would-be-mistake/\">Washington Post's editorial board to declare that shutting the plant down would be the \"the definition of climate incoherence.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's authors recommend delaying the closure of Diablo Canyon by 10 years, to 2035. Doing so, they predict, would yield a 10% reduction over 2017 levels in carbon emissions generated by California's power sector, while saving some $2.6 billion in power system costs and bolstering system reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to suggest several new uses for the plant should it remain open for another decade, including as the power source for a major desalination complex that could produce fresh water at 80 times the rate of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/\">Carlsbad Desalination Plant\u003c/a>. It also suggests the possibility of connecting the nuclear facility to a hydrogen plant to produce clean hydrogen fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some energy experts say the analysis simply underscores the need for California to double down on its clean-energy production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You shut down Diablo Canyon, something is going to replace it. We still have electricity demand. People still will use the same amount of electricity the day Diablo Canyon goes offline,\" Mark Specht, an energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told The California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using only natural gas to supplant Diablo Canyon's power supply would be the emissions equivalent of adding 300,000 cars to California's roads, according to research by Specht's team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, that should send a clear message that \"there is no time to waste\" \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/my-turn/2021/05/will-california-keep-the-lights-on-when-diablo-canyon-shuts-down/\"> in creating new clean-energy infrastructure to replace the nuclear plant's output\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are talking about three or four years and then the power plant goes offline, and building new clean resources takes years. Folks have to be working on this right now to make sure we replace the power plant with clean energy,\" Specht said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bill Monning, former state senator\"]'When people say it's clean energy, that's right at a certain level, but it doesn't take into account the waste that is left behind the spent rods.'[/pullquote]The debate over the plant's closure comes just weeks after world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations climate summit in an urgent effort to dramatically reduce global carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping the plant open also doesn't jibe with former state Sen. Bill Monning, who used to represent the district where Diablo Canyon is located, and who worked on legislation securing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to help the area prepare for the economic impacts of its closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people say it's clean energy, that's right at a certain level, but it doesn't take into account the waste that is left behind the spent fuel rods,\" Monning told The California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And so as people kind of weigh in now and say, 'Well, why don't we keep it open? There's a gap between available renewable energy, this is so-called clean energy' — it doesn't take into account that history [of waste],\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monning says he's confident the nuclear plant won't continue running past 2025, in large part because no one with decision-making power, including its operator — Pacific Gas and Electric — wants it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E was a member of this agreement and has no interest in seeking to renew their licensing,\" Monning said. \"And there's no evidence that anybody else does, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from NPR's Lauren Sommer.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some energy experts are sharply divided over the state's plan to close its last remaining nuclear plant. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1637803870,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":733},"headData":{"title":"California's Last Nuclear Plant Is Slated to Close by 2025. Why Some Scientists Worry That Could Be Bad News for Carbon Emissions | KQED","description":"Some energy experts are sharply divided over the state's plan to close its last remaining nuclear plant. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California's Last Nuclear Plant Is Slated to Close by 2025. 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Why Some Scientists Worry That Could Be Bad News for Carbon Emissions","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/1b5e653c-035b-437f-b2f0-ade801118a96/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11897239/californias-last-nuclear-plant-is-slated-to-close-in-2025-why-some-scientists-worry-thats-bad-news-for-carbon-emissions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The massive 2,200-megawatt Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the last-standing nuclear power facility in California, is scheduled to fully shut down operations by 2025, ending the state's reliance on nuclear energy. Some energy experts, though, warn that shuttering the plant — a goal long sought by anti-nuclear advocates — could ultimately lead to a spike in the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://energy.stanford.edu/publications/assessment-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-zero-carbon-electricity-desalination-and\">a recent report from researchers at Stanford Energy\u003c/a>, shuttering the San Luis Obispo County facility, which opened in 1985 in the face of fierce opposition, would likely make the state more dependent on natural gas for its electricity production. Natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a climate-warming gas more potent than carbon dioxide when released into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"climate-change"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The report's findings spurred the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/closing-californias-last-nuclear-power-plant-would-be-mistake/\">Washington Post's editorial board to declare that shutting the plant down would be the \"the definition of climate incoherence.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's authors recommend delaying the closure of Diablo Canyon by 10 years, to 2035. Doing so, they predict, would yield a 10% reduction over 2017 levels in carbon emissions generated by California's power sector, while saving some $2.6 billion in power system costs and bolstering system reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to suggest several new uses for the plant should it remain open for another decade, including as the power source for a major desalination complex that could produce fresh water at 80 times the rate of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/\">Carlsbad Desalination Plant\u003c/a>. It also suggests the possibility of connecting the nuclear facility to a hydrogen plant to produce clean hydrogen fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some energy experts say the analysis simply underscores the need for California to double down on its clean-energy production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You shut down Diablo Canyon, something is going to replace it. We still have electricity demand. People still will use the same amount of electricity the day Diablo Canyon goes offline,\" Mark Specht, an energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told The California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using only natural gas to supplant Diablo Canyon's power supply would be the emissions equivalent of adding 300,000 cars to California's roads, according to research by Specht's team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, that should send a clear message that \"there is no time to waste\" \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/my-turn/2021/05/will-california-keep-the-lights-on-when-diablo-canyon-shuts-down/\"> in creating new clean-energy infrastructure to replace the nuclear plant's output\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are talking about three or four years and then the power plant goes offline, and building new clean resources takes years. Folks have to be working on this right now to make sure we replace the power plant with clean energy,\" Specht said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When people say it's clean energy, that's right at a certain level, but it doesn't take into account the waste that is left behind the spent rods.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Bill Monning, former state senator","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The debate over the plant's closure comes just weeks after world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations climate summit in an urgent effort to dramatically reduce global carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping the plant open also doesn't jibe with former state Sen. Bill Monning, who used to represent the district where Diablo Canyon is located, and who worked on legislation securing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to help the area prepare for the economic impacts of its closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people say it's clean energy, that's right at a certain level, but it doesn't take into account the waste that is left behind the spent fuel rods,\" Monning told The California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And so as people kind of weigh in now and say, 'Well, why don't we keep it open? There's a gap between available renewable energy, this is so-called clean energy' — it doesn't take into account that history [of waste],\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monning says he's confident the nuclear plant won't continue running past 2025, in large part because no one with decision-making power, including its operator — Pacific Gas and Electric — wants it open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E was a member of this agreement and has no interest in seeking to renew their licensing,\" Monning said. \"And there's no evidence that anybody else does, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from NPR's Lauren Sommer.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11897239/californias-last-nuclear-plant-is-slated-to-close-in-2025-why-some-scientists-worry-thats-bad-news-for-carbon-emissions","authors":["11621","11690"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_1625","news_30297","news_21349","news_255","news_1068","news_1029","news_1069","news_20913"],"featImg":"news_11897278","label":"news_72"},"news_11681597":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11681597","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11681597","score":null,"sort":[1532453521000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"business-group-asks-state-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-diablo-canyon-safety","title":"Business Group Asks State Supreme Court to Hear Case on Diablo Canyon Safety","publishDate":1532453521,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A progressive business think tank in Santa Barbara is asking the state Supreme Court to take up a case it hopes will lead to a new review of the safety of PG&E's Diablo Canyon power plant, the state's last nuclear generating facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the \u003ca href=\"https://worldbusiness.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Business Academy\u003c/a> argue in \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4616574/Petition-for-Review-to-CA-Supreme-Court-July-23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a petition\u003c/a> filed with the high court on Monday that continued operation of Diablo Canyon poses a host of environmental risks, including the potential for a catastrophic failure due to the condition of the plant's Unit 1 reactor structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WBA, a 30-year-old organization that focuses on the role of business in solving climate change and energy security issues, is seeking to force the State Lands Commission to reconsider a 2016 decision to renew a pair of state property leases through 2025. Those leases, which involve land on which parts of Diablo Canyon's cooling systems are built, had been set to expire in 2018 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Monday, PG&E defended the commission's decision on the leases and disputed the notion that Diablo Canyon poses health or safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 lease extension came after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/790765/californias-last-nuclear-power-plant-to-close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an agreement\u003c/a> involving state agencies, PG&E, environmental organizations, labor groups and Central Coast communities under which the utility agreed to end operations at the plant's two reactor units in 2024 and 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Groups Sought Environmental Review\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Business Academy and other Diablo Canyon opponents, invoking the California Environmental Quality Act, had sought to get the lands commission to require at least a preliminary environmental study of the potential impacts involved in the plant's continued operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the agency adopted a staff report declaring that Diablo Canyon qualified for an exemption from CEQA environmental review because it was an existing facility that would continue to operate the same way it had for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Business Academy sued the lands commission in August 2016, contending that the CEQA exemption and lease renewals were improper. The WBA argued that Diablo Canyon presents a range of \"unusual circumstances\" that pose a reasonable chance of environmental effects and should have precluded the exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those unusual circumstances, the academy's attorneys argued, include the known seismic hazards at the site; risks to human health; the damage to the marine environment caused by the plant's use of 2.5 billion gallons of seawater every day to cool the plant's twin reactors; PG&E's past safety issues, including poor pipeline maintenance and inspections that led to the 2010 San Bruno disaster; and dangers posed by \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-reactor/neutron-fluence-and-irradiation-embrittlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embrittlement\u003c/a>\" of the Unit 1 reactor pressure vessel -- the huge welded-steel structure that contains the unit's radioactive core and fuel rods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4615008/L-A-Superior-Court-Order-in-World-Business.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled against the WBA\u003c/a> in July 2017. A state Court of Appeal panel \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/4615009/Court-of-Appeal-World-Business-Academy-v-State.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWZKW64MXJ5HXBOA&Expires=1532453729&Signature=uHcPQOW6kbeqrdHDQPf2rlUqBCI%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected\u003c/a> the group's arguments in June, leading to Monday's petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions About Reactor's Condition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that filing revisits most of the earlier issues the business group raised, it focuses most of its attention on the embrittlement issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactor pressure vessels become embrittled and more susceptible to fracture over time as their walls are bombarded by neutrons from the reactor core. A fractured reactor pressure vessel could lead to an uncontrolled release of radiation over a wide area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon's Unit 1 reactor, built in the late 1960s and in commercial service since 1985, has been cited in Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents as having one of the most embrittled reactors in the United States. The WBA and other groups that have expressed concern about the nuclear plant say embrittlement combined with the danger of an earthquake at Diablo Canyon -- studies have suggested the potential of a 7.5-magnitude earthquake at the site -- heighten the potential for a catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new WBA petition alleges that PG&E \"is ignoring the problem of embrittlement\" and has failed to conduct an industry-standard test that could help shed light on the condition of the reactor pressure vessel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That test involves withdrawing a sample of metal -- variously known as a \"capsule\" or \"coupon\" -- placed in reactor vessels when they begin operation. The samples can be removed at predetermined intervals for testing that helps determine the rate at which the reactor vessel is becoming embrittled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Diablo Canyon, the WBA petition says, no coupons from Unit 1 have been tested since 2003. Based on those tests, the NRC estimated that Unit 1 could run until 2033 before its reactor pressure vessel would be subject to an unacceptable risk of fracture. PG&E says a later analysis using revised federal guidelines found the vessel could continue to run safely through 2044.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnie Gundersen, a Vermont-based engineer and veteran of the nuclear power industry who has \u003ca href=\"https://mothersforpeace.org/data/2017/31-1-17-arnie-gundersens-testimony-to-the-cpuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testified\u003c/a> on behalf of groups seeking the early shutdown, says he questions the reliability of the NRC estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The agency's calculation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's two problems with the 2033 number for embrittlement,\" Gundersen said in an interview Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first one is that it's based on a sample that's 15 years old and computer simulations (of embrittlement) after that. The second thing is they've changed the operating procedures, and the operators have to do things exactly right when they shut down that reactor,\" Gundersen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the plant were to have an earthquake and the operators in their rush to shut the plant down do it wrong, they can crack that vessel, and it would be worse\" than the tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gundersen says he advocates withdrawing one of the metal coupons from Unit 1 for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they become embrittled, that's a good sign that the (reactor pressure vessel) wall is in trouble,\" Gundersen said. \"But if those coupons come out and they're not embrittled, that's a perfect sign that the wall of the reactor is ready to go to 2024\" -- the scheduled date for Unit 1's retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair Jones, a PG&E spokesman at Diablo Canyon, said in a statement Monday that the plant's Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactor pressure vessels \"are safe and highly reliable, and are designed against embrittlement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said that the utility conducted a \"full, volumetric, ultrasonic inspection\" of the Unit 1 vessel in 2016. Such ultrasound inspections, required every 10 years under NRC regulations, focus on the integrity of welds in reactor pressure vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said the inspection found \"no signs\" the Unit 1 vessel was becoming embrittled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco attorney Kirk Boyd, part of the legal team representing the World Business Alliance, said in an interview Friday his client is not seeking the early shutdown of Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The goal is to have them do the inspection to figure out just how dangerous the situation is,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The World Business Academy, a Santa Barbara-based think tank, is challenging a state lease the PG&E nuclear plant needs to continue operating. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1544221458,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1159},"headData":{"title":"Business Group Asks State Supreme Court to Hear Case on Diablo Canyon Safety | KQED","description":"The World Business Academy, a Santa Barbara-based think tank, is challenging a state lease the PG&E nuclear plant needs to continue operating. 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Those leases, which involve land on which parts of Diablo Canyon's cooling systems are built, had been set to expire in 2018 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Monday, PG&E defended the commission's decision on the leases and disputed the notion that Diablo Canyon poses health or safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 lease extension came after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/790765/californias-last-nuclear-power-plant-to-close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an agreement\u003c/a> involving state agencies, PG&E, environmental organizations, labor groups and Central Coast communities under which the utility agreed to end operations at the plant's two reactor units in 2024 and 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Groups Sought Environmental Review\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Business Academy and other Diablo Canyon opponents, invoking the California Environmental Quality Act, had sought to get the lands commission to require at least a preliminary environmental study of the potential impacts involved in the plant's continued operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the agency adopted a staff report declaring that Diablo Canyon qualified for an exemption from CEQA environmental review because it was an existing facility that would continue to operate the same way it had for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Business Academy sued the lands commission in August 2016, contending that the CEQA exemption and lease renewals were improper. The WBA argued that Diablo Canyon presents a range of \"unusual circumstances\" that pose a reasonable chance of environmental effects and should have precluded the exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those unusual circumstances, the academy's attorneys argued, include the known seismic hazards at the site; risks to human health; the damage to the marine environment caused by the plant's use of 2.5 billion gallons of seawater every day to cool the plant's twin reactors; PG&E's past safety issues, including poor pipeline maintenance and inspections that led to the 2010 San Bruno disaster; and dangers posed by \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-reactor/neutron-fluence-and-irradiation-embrittlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embrittlement\u003c/a>\" of the Unit 1 reactor pressure vessel -- the huge welded-steel structure that contains the unit's radioactive core and fuel rods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4615008/L-A-Superior-Court-Order-in-World-Business.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled against the WBA\u003c/a> in July 2017. A state Court of Appeal panel \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/4615009/Court-of-Appeal-World-Business-Academy-v-State.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWZKW64MXJ5HXBOA&Expires=1532453729&Signature=uHcPQOW6kbeqrdHDQPf2rlUqBCI%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected\u003c/a> the group's arguments in June, leading to Monday's petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions About Reactor's Condition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that filing revisits most of the earlier issues the business group raised, it focuses most of its attention on the embrittlement issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactor pressure vessels become embrittled and more susceptible to fracture over time as their walls are bombarded by neutrons from the reactor core. A fractured reactor pressure vessel could lead to an uncontrolled release of radiation over a wide area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon's Unit 1 reactor, built in the late 1960s and in commercial service since 1985, has been cited in Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents as having one of the most embrittled reactors in the United States. The WBA and other groups that have expressed concern about the nuclear plant say embrittlement combined with the danger of an earthquake at Diablo Canyon -- studies have suggested the potential of a 7.5-magnitude earthquake at the site -- heighten the potential for a catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new WBA petition alleges that PG&E \"is ignoring the problem of embrittlement\" and has failed to conduct an industry-standard test that could help shed light on the condition of the reactor pressure vessel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That test involves withdrawing a sample of metal -- variously known as a \"capsule\" or \"coupon\" -- placed in reactor vessels when they begin operation. The samples can be removed at predetermined intervals for testing that helps determine the rate at which the reactor vessel is becoming embrittled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Diablo Canyon, the WBA petition says, no coupons from Unit 1 have been tested since 2003. Based on those tests, the NRC estimated that Unit 1 could run until 2033 before its reactor pressure vessel would be subject to an unacceptable risk of fracture. PG&E says a later analysis using revised federal guidelines found the vessel could continue to run safely through 2044.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnie Gundersen, a Vermont-based engineer and veteran of the nuclear power industry who has \u003ca href=\"https://mothersforpeace.org/data/2017/31-1-17-arnie-gundersens-testimony-to-the-cpuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testified\u003c/a> on behalf of groups seeking the early shutdown, says he questions the reliability of the NRC estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The agency's calculation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's two problems with the 2033 number for embrittlement,\" Gundersen said in an interview Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first one is that it's based on a sample that's 15 years old and computer simulations (of embrittlement) after that. The second thing is they've changed the operating procedures, and the operators have to do things exactly right when they shut down that reactor,\" Gundersen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the plant were to have an earthquake and the operators in their rush to shut the plant down do it wrong, they can crack that vessel, and it would be worse\" than the tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gundersen says he advocates withdrawing one of the metal coupons from Unit 1 for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they become embrittled, that's a good sign that the (reactor pressure vessel) wall is in trouble,\" Gundersen said. \"But if those coupons come out and they're not embrittled, that's a perfect sign that the wall of the reactor is ready to go to 2024\" -- the scheduled date for Unit 1's retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair Jones, a PG&E spokesman at Diablo Canyon, said in a statement Monday that the plant's Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactor pressure vessels \"are safe and highly reliable, and are designed against embrittlement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said that the utility conducted a \"full, volumetric, ultrasonic inspection\" of the Unit 1 vessel in 2016. Such ultrasound inspections, required every 10 years under NRC regulations, focus on the integrity of welds in reactor pressure vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said the inspection found \"no signs\" the Unit 1 vessel was becoming embrittled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco attorney Kirk Boyd, part of the legal team representing the World Business Alliance, said in an interview Friday his client is not seeking the early shutdown of Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The goal is to have them do the inspection to figure out just how dangerous the situation is,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11681597/business-group-asks-state-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-diablo-canyon-safety","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_24620","news_1068","news_1069","news_140"],"featImg":"news_11681621","label":"news_72"},"news_11630168":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11630168","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11630168","score":null,"sort":[1510524042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-utility-judge-cuts-proposed-cost-for-nuke-closure","title":"Utility Judge Proposed Cost Cut for Nuke Closure Could Mean Higher Rates for Customers","publishDate":1510524042,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A state judge Wednesday recommended that California's largest utility be allowed to increase customer rates by nearly $200 million for costs tied to the planned closing of the state's last operating nuclear plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the plan for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is expected to add a few pennies a month to bills for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed decision by California Public Utilities Commission Administrative Law Judge Peter V. Allen trimmed tens of millions of dollars from the request from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility asked for $360 million for employee retention and training, which the judge cut to about $170 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also set aside a plan to use $85 million for assistance for local governments, saying it would require legislative authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question before this commission is not whether there will be economic impacts, or even the potential size and scope of those impacts, but rather whether PG&E ratepayers should pay to mitigate these impacts,\" the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility's proposal stems from a 2016 agreement between PG&E and environmental groups to close Diablo Canyon, located midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission could consider the judge's proposal in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said in a statement it disagreed with the judge's decision to cut the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said the judge's recommendation \"differs in regards to certain key areas, including the employee, community and energy replacement programs. PG&E strongly disagrees with these proposed adjustments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility's proposal is separate from the multibillion-dollar plan to decommission Diablo Canyon, under which the site would eventually be dismantled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twin-reactor plant has been operating commercially since the mid-1980s, supplying power to about 3 million homes in Northern and Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge endorsed the schedule to retire the reactors, Unit 1 in 2024 and Unit 2 in 2025, when their federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission operating licenses expire. He wrote it provides \"a reasonable amount of time for the transition process.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If approved, the plan is expected to add a few pennies a month to bills for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1510541417,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":349},"headData":{"title":"Utility Judge Proposed Cost Cut for Nuke Closure Could Mean Higher Rates for Customers | KQED","description":"If approved, the plan is expected to add a few pennies a month to bills for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Utility Judge Proposed Cost Cut for Nuke Closure Could Mean Higher Rates for Customers","datePublished":"2017-11-12T22:00:42.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-13T02:50:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11630168 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11630168","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/12/state-utility-judge-cuts-proposed-cost-for-nuke-closure/","disqusTitle":"Utility Judge Proposed Cost Cut for Nuke Closure Could Mean Higher Rates for Customers","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Associated Press\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11630168/state-utility-judge-cuts-proposed-cost-for-nuke-closure","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A state judge Wednesday recommended that California's largest utility be allowed to increase customer rates by nearly $200 million for costs tied to the planned closing of the state's last operating nuclear plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the plan for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is expected to add a few pennies a month to bills for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed decision by California Public Utilities Commission Administrative Law Judge Peter V. Allen trimmed tens of millions of dollars from the request from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility asked for $360 million for employee retention and training, which the judge cut to about $170 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also set aside a plan to use $85 million for assistance for local governments, saying it would require legislative authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question before this commission is not whether there will be economic impacts, or even the potential size and scope of those impacts, but rather whether PG&E ratepayers should pay to mitigate these impacts,\" the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility's proposal stems from a 2016 agreement between PG&E and environmental groups to close Diablo Canyon, located midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission could consider the judge's proposal in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said in a statement it disagreed with the judge's decision to cut the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said the judge's recommendation \"differs in regards to certain key areas, including the employee, community and energy replacement programs. PG&E strongly disagrees with these proposed adjustments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility's proposal is separate from the multibillion-dollar plan to decommission Diablo Canyon, under which the site would eventually be dismantled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twin-reactor plant has been operating commercially since the mid-1980s, supplying power to about 3 million homes in Northern and Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge endorsed the schedule to retire the reactors, Unit 1 in 2024 and Unit 2 in 2025, when their federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission operating licenses expire. He wrote it provides \"a reasonable amount of time for the transition process.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11630168/state-utility-judge-cuts-proposed-cost-for-nuke-closure","authors":["byline_news_11630168"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_1068","news_21973","news_1069","news_140"],"featImg":"news_11630171","label":"source_news_11630168"},"news_11448745":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11448745","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11448745","score":null,"sort":[1494382752000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"her-nuclear-option","title":"Her Nuclear Option","publishDate":1494382752,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Q’ed Up | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":20407,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As an environmentalist, Heather Matteson was pretty sure she was against nuclear power. It’s how she was raised to think. But when she starts working in the bowels of a nuclear reactor, she begins questioning what she knows and where her allegiances lie.\u003cbr>\nHeather is heading deep into a decades-old conflict but one where old battle lines are changing. The reason is climate change. Environmentalists are being forced to reconsider it, after decades of protesting against it. And the flashpoint for this is the last nuclear power plant running in California, which could soon be shut down. It’s also where Heather works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1494382752,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":109},"headData":{"title":"Her Nuclear Option | KQED","description":"As an environmentalist, Heather Matteson was pretty sure she was against nuclear power. It’s how she was raised to think. But when she starts working in the bowels of a nuclear reactor, she begins questioning what she knows and where her allegiances lie. Heather is heading deep into a decades-old conflict but one where old","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Her Nuclear Option","datePublished":"2017-05-10T02:19:12.000Z","dateModified":"2017-05-10T02:19:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11448745 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11448745","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/09/her-nuclear-option/","disqusTitle":"Her Nuclear Option","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/qed-up/2017/05/Qedupv3scored.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11448745/her-nuclear-option","audioDuration":1330000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As an environmentalist, Heather Matteson was pretty sure she was against nuclear power. It’s how she was raised to think. But when she starts working in the bowels of a nuclear reactor, she begins questioning what she knows and where her allegiances lie.\u003cbr>\nHeather is heading deep into a decades-old conflict but one where old battle lines are changing. The reason is climate change. Environmentalists are being forced to reconsider it, after decades of protesting against it. And the flashpoint for this is the last nuclear power plant running in California, which could soon be shut down. It’s also where Heather works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11448745/her-nuclear-option","authors":["239"],"programs":["news_20407"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1068","news_1048","news_1957","news_20913","news_20564"],"featImg":"news_11448824","label":"news_20407"},"science_801694":{"type":"posts","id":"science_801694","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"801694","score":null,"sort":[1467043258000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-plans-to-replace-diablo-canyon-with-100-percent-clean-energy-could-fall-short","title":"Why Plans to Replace Diablo Canyon With 100 Percent Clean Energy Could Fall Short","publishDate":1467043258,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Why Plans to Replace Diablo Canyon With 100 Percent Clean Energy Could Fall Short | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>When PG&E announced plans to close California’s last remaining nuclear plant last week, it also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20160621_in_step_with_californias_evolving_energy_policy_pge_labor_and_environmental_groups_announce_proposal_to_increase_energy_efficiency_renewables_and_storage_while_phasing_out_nuclear_power_over_the_next_decade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a historic plan\u003c/a> to replace it with clean energy, like solar or wind, and energy efficiency gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That way, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which doesn’t put out carbon emissions, won’t be replaced with something that does, like natural gas, the utility said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 100 percent clean energy transition is less certain than it sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say that natural gas power plants could also play a role in replacing Diablo Canyon, because of the challenges of adding large amounts of renewable energy to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s going to be up to everybody to hold them accountable.’\u003ccite>Laura Wisland, Union of Concerned Scientists\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Solar and wind power \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fluctuate based on the weather conditions \u003c/a>and time of day. Natural gas plants are kept running to fill in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, some say closing Diablo Canyon could actually boost greenhouse gas emissions, because there may not be enough renewable energy to cover the loss of the nuclear plant in the first few years after it retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it’s committed to a greenhouse-gas free solution. Whether that happens will depend on how the utility and regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission put that plan in motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Shrinking Gap?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Diablo Canyon produces about 20 percent of PG&E’s electricity. That’s a lot of megawatts to replace. PG&E says not all of them be replaced, though, thanks to California’s “changing energy landscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need it,” said Geisha Williams, president of PG&E Electric. “There’s been so much energy efficiency. There’s been so much power that’s been generated by customers on their own private solar rooftop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California must double its energy efficiency by 2030 under a state law passed last year, SB 350, which means PG&E’s customers will need less electricity from their utility. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/01/28/california-preserves-solar-incentives-in-defeat-for-utilities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home solar systems are booming\u003c/a>, which reduces the need for large power plants. Customers in Marin and Sonoma Counties, for example, have left PG&E and are forming their own local utilities, a process known as community choice aggregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, PG&E is required to get more of its power from renewable sources, like solar and wind, in order to meet the state’s goal of 50 percent renewable power by 2030.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-wHtHc\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/wHtHc/5/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"330\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add all that up and PG&E says it would only need to run Diablo Canyon at half-power in the future, which makes it financially infeasible to keep open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Diablo retires, PG&E will need to replace roughly 9,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity. (In California, it takes around 6,000 gigawatt-hours to power one million households for a year). Through improved energy efficiency, PG&E expects demand to fall by 2,000 gigawatt-hours by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves a gap of roughly 7,000 gigawatt-hours to make up for the year that Diablo’s reactors go offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bridge that gap, PG&E plans to significantly boost the renewable energy it uses by 2031. By six years after Diablo’s retirement, PG&E says it plans to be generating 55 percent renewable power, system-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even considering PG&E’s rapid renewable energy growth, some energy analysts say PG&E may need to turn to natural gas for the first few years after Diablo Canyon’s retirement, a move that could add to California’s greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Natural Gas as a ‘Bridge Fuel’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually increase their dependence on gas-fired generation over a short time frame because that’s really the only option that’s available to them,” said Morris Greenberg, Managing Director of North American Power at \u003ca href=\"http://www.pira.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PIRA Energy Group\u003c/a>, an energy market research firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PIRA ran an analysis of the Western electric grid and found that while the use of natural gas is currently declining in Northern California, it could rise around 34 percent from 2023 to 2026 because of Diablo’s closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_610986\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-610986 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/CAISO2.jpg\" alt=\"Grid operators balance California's transmission system on a minute-by-minute basis at the Independent System Operator.\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/CAISO2.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/CAISO2-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grid operators balance California’s transmission system on a minute-by-minute basis at the Independent System Operator. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greenberg says the analysis takes into account PG&E renewable energy goals, but not the exact specifics of the plan announced last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says there’s a reason it hasn’t spelled out exactly how it will replace Diablo’s power: it’s hard to predict how energy technology will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I try to write down megawatt-hour by megawatt-hour what fills that gap in 2025 right now, that’s actually a losing strategy,” said Todd Strauss, PG&E’s senior director of energy policy planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal clearly recognizes there’s lots of other things that need to be done, but we shouldn’t specify it today,” he said. “We’re committed to having Diablo Canyon’s retirement not result in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions,” Strauss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the environmental groups that signed on to PG&E’s closure plan say there is a risk of turning to natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re determined to avoid that,” said Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says there are alternatives like using energy efficiency programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all going to work together to ensure that the fears of our adversaries are not realized: that anytime you lose a nuclear plant you automatically get an uptick in fossil fuels and pollution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ups and Downs of Renewables\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solar and wind power that will eventually replace Diablo Canyon is carbon-free, but they only work when the sun is out and the wind is blowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”UDvFW0KjwXA2qzfZs2eJlC9ioUH62sa1″]As clouds cover the sun or the wind dies down, the power supply drops, creating fluctuations on the electric grid. To prevent widespread outages, the state’s grid operator, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Independent System Operator\u003c/a> (ISO), has to have another source of energy ready to fill in the gap immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, it’s been natural gas power plants, which can be turned up and down as needed. That means gas plants have to be run at the same time as renewables, because once turned off, they can take hours to turn back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as more renewable energy comes online, running renewables, natural gas and other power sources all together sometimes creates more power than the state needs. At those times, the California ISO has to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">switch off solar farms\u003c/a> to avoid overloading the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retiring Diablo Canyon could help with that problem. The nuclear plant is designed to run at a steady, constant level. Nuclear advocates have argued that the state needs this kind of “baseload” power. Others say shutting down Diablo could actually improve grid management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will reduce the need to curtail our solar power plants,” said Cavanagh. “The nuclear plant can’t be ramped up and down, so it’s occupying space on the grid that solar farms could occupy at much lower cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>TOO MUCH RENEWABLE POWER\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb> On a sunny day in March, some solar farms had to shut down because there was more power on the grid than Californians were using. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_611449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1730px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-611449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/Solar_-Grid_Desktop.png\" alt=\"SOURCE: California ISO. \" width=\"1730\" height=\"1000\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California ISO. \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_611442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-611442 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/Solar_Grid_Mobile.png\" alt=\"SOURCE: California ISO\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California ISO\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Natural Gas At the Ready\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as California approaches the legislative mandate of getting half its electricity from renewable sources, the grid will need more backup power ready to fill in when solar and wind power fluctuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could be at risk of running the gas fleet higher than we would otherwise run it,” said Laura Wisland of the Union of Concerned Scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wisland says there are a number of strategies to avoid that. Spreading solar and wind farms across a wide geographic area would prevent localized weather conditions, like cloud cover or lack of wind, from creating such large fluctuations on the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some solar farms and natural gas plants are also less flexible than they could be, because their contracts limit how often they can be turned down or turned off. Wisland says having fewer limits on that would make it easier for the grid operator to balance the ups and downs of renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it plans to negotiate more flexible contracts with both new renewable projects and older ones whose contracts are expiring soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/11/too-much-solar-in-california-not-if-you-bottle-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy storage projects\u003c/a>, like large batteries, can also provide power to balance out solar and wind, so natural gas wouldn’t be needed as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also looking at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/\">joining its electric grid to other Western states\u003c/a>, so power can be shared more efficiently throughout the West. Instead of turning on more natural gas plants here, California could hypothetically look for clean power from other states instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it’s interested in those strategies, but state regulators must ultimately approve the decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There remains “a lot that is actually beyond PG&E, to be worked out at the California Public Utilities Commission, California ISO, and other California discussions,” says PG&E’s Strauss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If action occurs too late, then there may be some challenge to the reliability of the system,” he says. “But with a planned, deliberate approach with plenty of foresight, we’re going get reliability in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they do sign up more renewables,” Wisland cautions, “they’re going to have to be much more aware of the integration challenges and be much more careful choosing renewables to minimize those challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it will bring its plan to retire Diablo Canyon and replace it with clean energy before regulators later this year. When that happens, Wisland says, “It’s going to be up to everybody to hold them accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"PG&E says it will replace the nuclear plant with renewable energy, but it's not as easy as it sounds.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704930004,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/wHtHc/5/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":50,"wordCount":1734},"headData":{"title":"Why Plans to Replace Diablo Canyon With 100 Percent Clean Energy Could Fall Short | KQED","description":"PG&E says it will replace the nuclear plant with renewable energy, but it's not as easy as it sounds.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Why Plans to Replace Diablo Canyon With 100 Percent Clean Energy Could Fall Short","datePublished":"2016-06-27T16:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T23:40:04.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/801694/why-plans-to-replace-diablo-canyon-with-100-percent-clean-energy-could-fall-short","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When PG&E announced plans to close California’s last remaining nuclear plant last week, it also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20160621_in_step_with_californias_evolving_energy_policy_pge_labor_and_environmental_groups_announce_proposal_to_increase_energy_efficiency_renewables_and_storage_while_phasing_out_nuclear_power_over_the_next_decade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a historic plan\u003c/a> to replace it with clean energy, like solar or wind, and energy efficiency gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That way, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which doesn’t put out carbon emissions, won’t be replaced with something that does, like natural gas, the utility said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 100 percent clean energy transition is less certain than it sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say that natural gas power plants could also play a role in replacing Diablo Canyon, because of the challenges of adding large amounts of renewable energy to the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s going to be up to everybody to hold them accountable.’\u003ccite>Laura Wisland, Union of Concerned Scientists\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Solar and wind power \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fluctuate based on the weather conditions \u003c/a>and time of day. Natural gas plants are kept running to fill in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, some say closing Diablo Canyon could actually boost greenhouse gas emissions, because there may not be enough renewable energy to cover the loss of the nuclear plant in the first few years after it retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it’s committed to a greenhouse-gas free solution. Whether that happens will depend on how the utility and regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission put that plan in motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Shrinking Gap?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Diablo Canyon produces about 20 percent of PG&E’s electricity. That’s a lot of megawatts to replace. PG&E says not all of them be replaced, though, thanks to California’s “changing energy landscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need it,” said Geisha Williams, president of PG&E Electric. “There’s been so much energy efficiency. There’s been so much power that’s been generated by customers on their own private solar rooftop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California must double its energy efficiency by 2030 under a state law passed last year, SB 350, which means PG&E’s customers will need less electricity from their utility. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/01/28/california-preserves-solar-incentives-in-defeat-for-utilities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home solar systems are booming\u003c/a>, which reduces the need for large power plants. Customers in Marin and Sonoma Counties, for example, have left PG&E and are forming their own local utilities, a process known as community choice aggregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, PG&E is required to get more of its power from renewable sources, like solar and wind, in order to meet the state’s goal of 50 percent renewable power by 2030.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-wHtHc\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/wHtHc/5/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"330\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add all that up and PG&E says it would only need to run Diablo Canyon at half-power in the future, which makes it financially infeasible to keep open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Diablo retires, PG&E will need to replace roughly 9,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity. (In California, it takes around 6,000 gigawatt-hours to power one million households for a year). Through improved energy efficiency, PG&E expects demand to fall by 2,000 gigawatt-hours by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves a gap of roughly 7,000 gigawatt-hours to make up for the year that Diablo’s reactors go offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bridge that gap, PG&E plans to significantly boost the renewable energy it uses by 2031. By six years after Diablo’s retirement, PG&E says it plans to be generating 55 percent renewable power, system-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even considering PG&E’s rapid renewable energy growth, some energy analysts say PG&E may need to turn to natural gas for the first few years after Diablo Canyon’s retirement, a move that could add to California’s greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Natural Gas as a ‘Bridge Fuel’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually increase their dependence on gas-fired generation over a short time frame because that’s really the only option that’s available to them,” said Morris Greenberg, Managing Director of North American Power at \u003ca href=\"http://www.pira.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PIRA Energy Group\u003c/a>, an energy market research firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PIRA ran an analysis of the Western electric grid and found that while the use of natural gas is currently declining in Northern California, it could rise around 34 percent from 2023 to 2026 because of Diablo’s closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_610986\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-610986 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/CAISO2.jpg\" alt=\"Grid operators balance California's transmission system on a minute-by-minute basis at the Independent System Operator.\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/CAISO2.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/CAISO2-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grid operators balance California’s transmission system on a minute-by-minute basis at the Independent System Operator. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greenberg says the analysis takes into account PG&E renewable energy goals, but not the exact specifics of the plan announced last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says there’s a reason it hasn’t spelled out exactly how it will replace Diablo’s power: it’s hard to predict how energy technology will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I try to write down megawatt-hour by megawatt-hour what fills that gap in 2025 right now, that’s actually a losing strategy,” said Todd Strauss, PG&E’s senior director of energy policy planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal clearly recognizes there’s lots of other things that need to be done, but we shouldn’t specify it today,” he said. “We’re committed to having Diablo Canyon’s retirement not result in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions,” Strauss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the environmental groups that signed on to PG&E’s closure plan say there is a risk of turning to natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re determined to avoid that,” said Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says there are alternatives like using energy efficiency programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all going to work together to ensure that the fears of our adversaries are not realized: that anytime you lose a nuclear plant you automatically get an uptick in fossil fuels and pollution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ups and Downs of Renewables\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solar and wind power that will eventually replace Diablo Canyon is carbon-free, but they only work when the sun is out and the wind is blowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>As clouds cover the sun or the wind dies down, the power supply drops, creating fluctuations on the electric grid. To prevent widespread outages, the state’s grid operator, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.caiso.com/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Independent System Operator\u003c/a> (ISO), has to have another source of energy ready to fill in the gap immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, it’s been natural gas power plants, which can be turned up and down as needed. That means gas plants have to be run at the same time as renewables, because once turned off, they can take hours to turn back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as more renewable energy comes online, running renewables, natural gas and other power sources all together sometimes creates more power than the state needs. At those times, the California ISO has to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">switch off solar farms\u003c/a> to avoid overloading the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retiring Diablo Canyon could help with that problem. The nuclear plant is designed to run at a steady, constant level. Nuclear advocates have argued that the state needs this kind of “baseload” power. Others say shutting down Diablo could actually improve grid management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will reduce the need to curtail our solar power plants,” said Cavanagh. “The nuclear plant can’t be ramped up and down, so it’s occupying space on the grid that solar farms could occupy at much lower cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>TOO MUCH RENEWABLE POWER\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb> On a sunny day in March, some solar farms had to shut down because there was more power on the grid than Californians were using. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_611449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1730px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-611449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/Solar_-Grid_Desktop.png\" alt=\"SOURCE: California ISO. \" width=\"1730\" height=\"1000\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California ISO. \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_611442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-611442 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/Solar_Grid_Mobile.png\" alt=\"SOURCE: California ISO\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California ISO\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Natural Gas At the Ready\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as California approaches the legislative mandate of getting half its electricity from renewable sources, the grid will need more backup power ready to fill in when solar and wind power fluctuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could be at risk of running the gas fleet higher than we would otherwise run it,” said Laura Wisland of the Union of Concerned Scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wisland says there are a number of strategies to avoid that. Spreading solar and wind farms across a wide geographic area would prevent localized weather conditions, like cloud cover or lack of wind, from creating such large fluctuations on the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some solar farms and natural gas plants are also less flexible than they could be, because their contracts limit how often they can be turned down or turned off. Wisland says having fewer limits on that would make it easier for the grid operator to balance the ups and downs of renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it plans to negotiate more flexible contracts with both new renewable projects and older ones whose contracts are expiring soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/11/too-much-solar-in-california-not-if-you-bottle-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy storage projects\u003c/a>, like large batteries, can also provide power to balance out solar and wind, so natural gas wouldn’t be needed as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also looking at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/\">joining its electric grid to other Western states\u003c/a>, so power can be shared more efficiently throughout the West. Instead of turning on more natural gas plants here, California could hypothetically look for clean power from other states instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it’s interested in those strategies, but state regulators must ultimately approve the decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There remains “a lot that is actually beyond PG&E, to be worked out at the California Public Utilities Commission, California ISO, and other California discussions,” says PG&E’s Strauss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If action occurs too late, then there may be some challenge to the reliability of the system,” he says. “But with a planned, deliberate approach with plenty of foresight, we’re going get reliability in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they do sign up more renewables,” Wisland cautions, “they’re going to have to be much more aware of the integration challenges and be much more careful choosing renewables to minimize those challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says it will bring its plan to retire Diablo Canyon and replace it with clean energy before regulators later this year. 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