Search Results for: Exelon

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Is Levy County nuclear plant too expensive to compete with natural gas?

ByRod Adams

…red many times.) https://atomicinsights.com/2012/05/john-rowe-explains-how-exelons-self-interest-is-served-by-promoting-natural-gas.html http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/natural-gas-vs-nuclear-power/ Exelon makes millions from selling natural gas with a backup or existing nuclear so why would have John Rowe wanted that cash cow model to change? Industrial wind and solar facilities only provide another market for Exelon to sell natural gas…

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New testing rules benefit oil producers

ByRod Adams

…ld ensure the nukes were profitable but that also would severely undermine Exelon‘s longtime commitment to letting markets work. At a November investor conference, Mr. Crane raised long-term contracts as a way to address Exelon‘s nuke woes, but he backed away from that idea in a February conference call with analysts.” Think about the statement carefully. If they really thought the nukes would be unprofitable, and we’re really considering shutteri…

Jackson County, Alabama Will Benefit from TVA's Bellefonte Site Announcement

ByRod Adams

…serious buyer came along, and made a serious offer for the plant, perhaps Exelon could be forced to not scrap the plant under competition law, as they seem to have a financial interest in scrapping it? Perhaps a value investor – someone who appreciates the worth of assets that others regard as liabilities. The plant’s value lies in the fact that it’s there, regardless of what condition it’s in, as long as the RPV and the steam generators are reco…

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Crowd sourced analysis of a Lovins sales pitch

ByRod Adams

…eaver Exelon makes this case in http://graphics8.nytimes.com/news/business/exelon.pdf. The future of three Exelon Plants in Question “after they failed to secure a capacity payment would have that supported their operation in a difficult power market.” To be fair, in the interest of balanced reporting, there is indeed a case for allowing negative electricity prices, although in further interest of fairness and balanced reporting, one might further…

President Obama: We have emission free fuels available NOW.

ByRod Adams

…rs and drives up the price of electricity too. I’d be stupid if I weren’t. Exelon is not interested in building any new nuclear reactors of any type. Their generation portfolio is probably too nuclear-heavy for financial risk management already, which is why I’m sure they don’t mind the government butting in and artificially helping them with that problem. To put it bluntly, Exelon‘s officers are nothing more than a bunch of opportunists. Well, pe…

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Would a third party candidate use “N” word in debates on energy alternatives?

ByRod Adams

…al” or “clean natural gas”. Pointing out the President’s relationship with Exelon is not entirely reassuring; that company is not one of my favorites in terms of its vision for future energy production systems. If you dig through the Atomic Insights archives, you will find plenty of posts about Exelon and my opinion of its leadership. I was a big fan of Corbin McNeill and the company under his influence; that is when they invested in the PBMR proj…

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Another nuclear plant will close for good on Monday

ByRod Adams

…mpany raises its full-year earnings guidance ( http://www.wsj.com/articles/exelon-profit-falls-on-nuclear-power-plant-closures-1477487821 ) Something from both articles – electricity demand has been flat in the region for a decade. Rod Adams @John T Tucker I suspect that home and commercial ENERGY demand has not been as flat as electricity demand. At least one of the local gas utility companies (Metropolitan Utilities District (MUD)) has been work…

Explaining the Climate Change Discussion in Comic Form

ByRod Adams

…dams @Brian – just out of curiosity, what do you think of the way that the Exelon executives have invested several years worth of lobbying efforts in attempting to benefit from cap and trade? http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0521837020100306 Are they part of the evil cabal that is secretly trying to destroy the American economy by pushing global warming alarmism or are they part of the heroic free capital market that believes that we can burn c…

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Above board competition in energy markets finally emerging. API Ohio pushing for nuclear shutdowns

ByRod Adams

…ought… JamesEHopf And it’s not even clear that generation companies like Exelon should be included as a “nuclear company” (i.e., a company whose fortunes are specifically tied to nuclear’s success). Strictly speaking, generation/utility companies are agnostic about generation methods. They’re happy to build whatever the public wants them to, as long as they can pass along the costs. Bellying up to the govt. trough to build renewables? Even bette…

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Deeply troubled by FitzPatrick and Pilgrim announcements. We need their clean electricity production to continue

ByRod Adams

…NY; 3) Cuomo could broker a deal with next-door neighbor Nine Mile Point (Exelon), tear down the fence, combine organizations, and purchase Fitz (probably with incentives); 4) NYPA could repurchase the plant, and put it back under Cuomo’s state control – or, just negotiate a fair long-term PPA. Atomikrabbit Of course it stars RFK Jr. – the director is his daughter, Rory. You can express your blood-boiling opinions on places like Rotten Tomatoes a…

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

ByRod Adams

…rt 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 that cash even without doing anything to change their emissions profile. He is also the man who is pressing forward with decommissioning an already built…

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Cape Wind scrambling to meet deadline to qualify for $780 million taxpayer gift

ByRod Adams

…rue production costs, but because of the wind subsidy, the company argues. Exelon was a member of the American Wind Energy Association, the industry’s trade group, but was expelled in September 2012 because it opposed extension of the production tax credit. Rod Adams @George C One thing that I have not yet been able to deduce is the effect of essentially replacing the Production Tax Credit with the Investment Tax Credit for most projects completed…

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