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HIGH PRICES, ROLLING OUTAGES?

Not in Chicago!

Our plants sell their power to us customers at a flat rate for the next few years, way below the high prices we're seeing on the market. We get a credit on our bills every month from any nuclear profits above about $50 per MWh.

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— Mark Nelson (@energybants)
10:04 PM • Dec 24, 2022

A generation of irresponsible leaders in New England and New York closed a bunch of nuclear plants and replaced them with natural gas plants. But without adding more pipelines.

Millions of households' worth of ultra-reliable clean power stripped out:

— Mark Nelson (@energybants)
10:25 PM • Dec 24, 2022

FOUR NUCLEAR REACTORS have been closed near Algonquin route since Sept. 2018: one each at Oyster Creek & Pilgrim, two at Indian Point.

They would've avoided burning 530 million cf of gas to produce 81GWh of electricity every day.

At these prices? $400m for January, rising fast httpp

— Mark Nelson (@energybants)
1:51 AM • Dec 24, 2021

New England opposed natural gas pipelines and shut down nuclear. If you live in New England, I suggest you pick up a wool blanket or two. In the war between platitudes and physics, physics is undefeated.

— Doomberg (@DoombergT)
12:59 AM • Dec 24, 2021