California to Phase Out Nuclear Power By 2025
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Source: TriplePundit
Say bye-bye to nuclear power in California as it will be phased out in less than a decade. Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the San Francisco-based utility company, announced it will phase out its nuclear power production in California by 2025. That means the power produced at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the state’s lone remaining operational nuclear power plant, will be replaced.
PG&E announced the proposal to phase out nuclear power in the Golden State with several organizations on Monday. They include the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245, Coalition of California Utility Employees, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environment California and Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility. The joint proposal will also increase investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy storage beyond the current state mandates.
The biggest reason for the move is that California’s new energy policies reduce the need for the nuclear power that Diablo Canyon produces. Specifically, PG&E cites the following as factors:
Read more: http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/06/nuclear-power-will-be-phased-out-in-california-by-2025/
After Decades of Protest, Last California Nuclear Plant to Close & Be Replaced by Renewable Energy
In a major victory for environmentalists, California is going nuclear-free, ending atomic energy’s more than half-century history in the state. On Tuesday, one of the state’s largest utilities agreed to a proposal endorsed by environmental groups and labor unions to shutter California’s last operating nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, by 2025. California is the world’s sixth largest economy, and it was among the first states to embrace nuclear energy in the 1950s. Diablo Canyon began operating in 1985 and stirred controversy from the start. For years, anti-nuclear activists called for the plant’s closure because of safety concerns over its precarious location near several major earthquake fault lines. We speak to Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth. The organization has been fighting for the plant’s closure since the 1960s.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/6/22/after_decades_of_protest_last_california
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