Monthly Archives: June 2017

Bloomberg came out with an article this week saying half of US nuclear plants are losing money. (see here)  This blog has discussed the issue in the past. (See here)  The announced closing of Three Mile Island a few weeks ago is obviously consistent with the new Bloomberg article. One thing tha

Back in March I talked about California's "duck curve". (see here)  One of the interesting side-effects (or challenges) of this situation will come to the forefront on August 21st, when a solar eclipse is scheduled to hit the country.  The large amount of solar capacity in place in California will

I am a big fan of maps and charts, and great new visualization recently came out that provides information on dams in the United States.  Dustin Cabral created this viz showing the approximately 80,000 dams in the U.S., and it highlights those considered to be the highest risk.  Many dams were cre

Page 10 of the June issue of Power Magazine had an interesting map showing the change in coal, gas, and renewable electricity generation by state. (Map can be found here.)  I was able to use EIA data to recreate the chart for coal and gas in the lower 48 states.  I was also able to add a little i

Exelon Corp announced this week that it will close the infamous Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in 2019 unless it receives government assistance.  (See press release here.  Wall Street Journal article can be found here.)  We have seen this story in the past with other nuclear plants.�