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My gut feel is that we'll end up with regulations putting a cap on retail (maybe not for industrial...) price variability and/or inserting in an extra fixed fee
by icegreentea2 5y ago
My gut feel is that we'll end up with regulations putting a cap on retail (maybe not for industrial...) price variability and/or inserting in an extra fixed fee (similar to connection fees) in many jurisdictions to help out with keeping baseload around.
I haven't done any of the math though. Like I want nuclear to just be cheaper than FF. But shrug.
- pfdietz 5y agoFor decades I was pointing to nuclear as a way out of fossil fuels. But I always added "or renewables if they get cheap enough, which they could if their experience curves keep holding when scaled to global energy demand". And eventually, the renewables did get cheaper. It would have been nice to have CO2 taxes decades ago for an earlier transition away from fossil fuels, but that's water under the bridge. There's no need to stay loyal to nuclear just because one once supported it. It's a technology, not a girlfriend.