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How Can We Halt The Reverse Great Bandwagon In Nuclear?

…ollars/year for every 1000 MWe of capacity. The era that former Exelon CEO John Rowe called the “golden age of nuclear” lasted from 2004-2008. It came to an abrupt halt when the Great Recession reduced the demand for natural gas just as production from hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling began to come online. The resulting imbalance between supply and demand produced an oversupply that was enough to crash the price by about 75% to about $…

Exelon may join the Texas nuclear plant rush

…rom both GE and Westinghouse. By my count that makes four separate companies with a possible 9 new plants in the great state of Texas. Amarillo Power – 2 TXU – 3 NRG – 2 Exelon – 2 Of course, Exelon’s President, Chris Crane, was careful not to contradict his boss, John Rowe. When announcing the company’s plan to file paperwork with the NRC in preparation for a project in Texas, Mr. Crane carefully stated that his company would not build unless sev…

Sense of purpose at the 2023 ANS Utility Working Conference

Sense of purpose at the 2023 ANS Utility Working Conference

…mprove. She talked about the example provided by one of her former bosses, John Rowe. During several different power supply crises, he accepted responsibility for his organization’s performance and did not attempt to make any excuses. During the Q&A, I asked Commissioner Caputo how a commission composed of five coequal members could take similar levels of responsibility. Her answer was that actions could be taken and leadership demonstrated when o…

Update: One-Woman Crusade to Encourage Exelon to Restore the Zion Nuclear Power Plant and Operate it In Her Backyard

…nois State Senator Christopher Lauzen, who has decided to formally ask Mr. John Rowe, the CEO of Exelon, to provide his side of the story. So far, Exelon has not responded to that letter, which is dated November 24, 2010. In addition to those efforts, Nancy has been participating in as many Internet discussions as she can find that relate to electricity production in her state and region. Like many atomic energy advocates that are concerned about…

Atomic Show #311 – Mary Jo Rogers – Founder, Rogers Leadership Group
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Atomic Show #311 – Mary Jo Rogers – Founder, Rogers Leadership Group

…p team included Oliver Kingsley and Chris Crane at the operating level and John Rowe at the corporate level. Dr. Rogers learned many lessons in leadership, and safety culture and observed the way that implementing strong programs that protected workers also helped to improve operational performance. She took those lessons with her to a major consulting group that served the entire nuclear industry. She wrote a book titled Nuclear Energy Leadership…

Randy Udall Challenges Duke Energy's Jim Rogers on CO2 Emissions – Rogers Fights Back By Emphasizing Importance and Usefulness of Nuclear Energy

…g with you. There is definitely a reason why I like Jim Rogers better than John Rowe. Update: (Posted August 23, 2009 0750) Yes, Randy Udall is part of the Udall political family that includes such members as his grandfather – Lewis Stewart Udall, his father – Mo Udall, his uncle – Stewart Udall, his brother – Mark Udall, and his cousin – Tom Udall. Here is a brief explanation of his current employment: Randy Udall has directed the Community Offic…

Catching up after a busy week

…s it is not enthusiastic about building a new plant anytime soon. Chairman John Rowe has said he is not interested in a new plant until the government approves a final disposal plan for spent nuclear fuel, and that is years away. It is worth remember the lessons of the law of supply and demand from Mr. Perry. It is quite logical for a company in a slow growing area that already owns 17 nuclear power plants to be reluctant to build more – the incre…

Exelon’s Strategy is Working for Stockholders but not Always for Customers

…derstanding of the economics of the situation, here is a direct quote from John Rowe’s preface to Exelon’s 2007 annual report: We have established our corporate structures and mobilized our legal and political teams to protect those market-based rates. Our marketing people are suspicious of fads and hardheaded about risks in volatile markets. Our plants will become more valuable in a future economy that is constrained both by carbon regulation and…

The Frack That’s Going On – Short Cuts Lower Cost but Add Risks

…nswers to those” questions, he said. I have waited in vain for people like John Rowe of Exelon or Mayo Shattuck of Constellation Energy to publicly ask that same question about the long term availability of “cheap natural gas”. Then I remember just how much their merchant generating companies with large nuclear fleets benefit financially when the price of gas goes up, thus driving up the settled price of electricity on the wholesale market. Those…

BBC Assures World That Natural Gas Is Abundant and Cheap – Just Ask Rune Bjornson Head of Statoil’s Gas Division

…board rooms, go back and review the testimony provided to the US Senate by John Rowe, CEO of Exelon and a thought leader in that business. Of course, if everyone puts off investing in long term projects, they will never get built until AFTER such time as we have gone through a very painful period of supply constrained price increases. If you happen to sell natural gas, however, you might not think of a period of high gas prices as being particular…

How much tritium leaked from Vermont Yankee before the leak was stopped?

…onse”. You like biomass better than small nuclear power and you think that John Rowe is the cats meow. Stop the name calling or I will take my platform away from you. Kit P Rod Adams Kit – are you telling me that you have not defended smoking or that you honestly want us to believe that pointing out its negative health effects is lying? I am actually confused and not trying to trick you. Since my father engineered systems that delivered electricit…

Twitter conversation about energy sources and free market
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Twitter conversation about energy sources and free market

…ver larger units. I also have to chuckle a bit at your characterization of John Rowe as a free market advocate. He and his lobbyists spent the better part of a decade pushing cap and trade rules that would specifically benefit Exelon because of its large, established fleet of nuclear power reactors. Their communications with stockholders – I was one – used to talk about how the rules could result in a $1 billion per year windfall. They would get t…

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