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PG&E Disputes ALJ’s Diablo Canyon Recommendation | RTO InsiderPG&E says it will challenge a California ALJ’s recommendation that it be granted only $190 million for the retirement of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.
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The problem with subsidizing nuclear power and coal
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Will Diablo close sooner than later – Cal Coast Times
On Nov. 8, Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Administrative Law Judge Peter V. Allen rendered his recommended decision with respect to the PG&E joint proposal for the closure of Diablo to the full Public Utilities Commission Board. The Commission has the final decision making authority. It may act on Dec. -
Group files suit to block storing nuclear waste at San Onofre
Public Watchdogs, a San Diego-based activist group, sue operators of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station as well as the U.S. government to block the storage of nuclear waste on the site. -
Sea level rise factors into nuclear waste discussion
Pilgrim advisory panel reviews issues related to dry cask storage. -
Cory Briggs sues Navy, Edison, SDG&E, Dept. of Defense
Lawyer attempts to halt “radioactive dump” near ocean at San Onofre -
Protest Planned Over Nuclear Waste Storage – Laguna Beach Local NewsA non-denominational prayer and meditation at Main Beach beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, kicks off a rally over nuclear waste. Protestors are contesting a California Coastal Commission permit that allows the burial of 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste near the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant.
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Sierra Club Launches Ad Campaign After FERC Chairman Endorses Bailout for Uneconomic Coal, Nuclear PlantsSierra Club launched a new video advertising campaign today against Secretary of Energy Rick Perry’s directive to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that will force millions of Americans to pay billions of dollars to prop up old, uneconomic coal and nuclear plants.
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Mothers for Peace weighs in on PUC decision on Diablo Canyon
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace sees positive and negative elements in the Public Utilities Commission setting conditions for shutting down Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. -
Utilities lawyer calls for legislative session to reform CPUC
Former San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre is taking aim at the California Public Utilities Commission and calling for a special legislative session to investigate the relationship between -
Here’s who should pay to shut down Diablo Canyon — and it’s not you and me
Shareholders — not ratepayers — should pay the costs to shut down Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, including the $85 million to help SLO County’s economy, writes columnist Phil Dirkx. -
CPUC’s prime purpose: Protect PG&E’s profitsIt’s a $363.4 million question — or if a judge’s recommendation holds, a $170 million question.
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Advocates call for halt to payments under disputed San Onofre settlement deal
In a hearing that grew testy amid mutual frustration and accusations, state utility regulators heard opposing arguments Tuesday about whether to allow owners of the broken San Onofre nuclear plant to keep profiting from the facility even though it produces no power. -
California draft order cuts PG&E’s proposed Diablo Canyon retirement recovery rates
The state’s Public Utilities Commission slashed the utility’s request to recover $1.76 billion in costs to retire Diablo Canyon nuclear facility to $190.4 million, potentially hurting plans to replace it with carbon-free resources. -
Disposal of nuclear waste: think Camp Pendleton
Each state should manage its own spent fuel, says study lauded by experts -
Program to ease local impact of Diablo Canyon closure rejected by Commission
A proposed program that would safeguard local health, safety and economic impacts of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant’s closure was rejected Wednesday in a proposed decision by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). -
PG&E Responds to CPUC Proposed Decision on Diablo Canyon Joint Proposal – Company Announcement – FT.comThe latest company information, including net asset values, performance, holding & sectors weighting, changes in voting rights, and directors and dealings.
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Judge denies PG&E request to raise rates over Diablo Canyon closure
A proposed decision by administrative law judge Peter Allen denies a request by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to increase its rates to pay San Luis Obispo County, cities and the school district $8… -
End may be nearing for Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
California’s last nuclear power plant – Diablo Canyon – may be one step closer to closing, despite a vocal campaign to save it. The California Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday issued a proposed decision that would approve plans by Diablo Canyon’s owner, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., to shut it down when the plant’s operating licenses expire, in 2024 and 2025. -
Sierra Club’s Take on Nuclear Waste Removal at San Onofre – Laguna Beach Local NewsEditor, Confusion remains about Edison’s plans for managing spent fuel at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. We have every reason to be vigilant in our continued oversight of Edison’s decommissioning plans. But it is also important to understand the years of oversight and discussions that the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club has provided in 19 meetings since 2014.
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In a hearing that grew testy amid mutual frustration and accusations, state utility regulators heard opposing arguments Tuesday about whether to allow owners of the broken San Onofre nuclear plant to keep profiting from the facility even though it produces no power.
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Marine Corps Waits For Nuke Waste Removal From San Onofre
The Navy and Marines would like to reclaim the military base land where the San Onofre nuclear power plant now sits, as soon as it is safely decommissioned. But with nuclear waste stored on the site indefinitely, that could be decades. -
Suggestions for resolving the San Onofre case depend on who’s talking
The utilities are sticking by the deal approved in 2014. Consumer groups say it should be modified to better protect ratepayers. A San Diego lawyer said state regulators so badly botched the San Onofre case it can only be fixed by a federal judge. -
Appeals Court Orders State Regulators To Submit Key San Onofre Emails For Possible Public Release
San Diego Consumer lawyer Mike Aguirre has long asked for the communications on grounds they may reveal how ratepayers got saddled with a $3.3 billion bill for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s closure following a radioactive leak. -
Thomas Elias: Time for California PUC to fix its San Onofre ‘settlement’
The California Public Utilities Commission now says it wants closure on its most contentious, most questionable decision of the last few decades.This comes more than four years after a -
Editorial: PG&E records show utility cannot be trusted
Even if PG&E is not to blame for the Wine Country wildfires , Californians must come to grips with the fact that the utility’s maintenance record shows it cannot be trusted. -
A Summary of Nuclear Waste Issue at San OnofreBy Gary Headrick I was recently asked to clear up some confusion about our nuclear waste strategy in an email thread between some good friends. I thought it might be worth sharing a refined version of my reply with you. Also if you have not signed and shared our Petition yet, please do.
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Mothers for Peace sponsors series of talks on nuclear wasteThere are two facts about the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant that cannot be disputed: It will close, and 2,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste will remain.
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Bipartisan group of former FERC commissioners rejects energy secretary’s bid to help coal plants
Eight former members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — including five former chairmen — have filed a letter with the commission in opposition of Rick Perry’s plan. -
San Diegans Lash Coastal Commission About Nuclear Waste
The California Coastal Commission received a tongue-lashing Wednesday from experts and citizens at a hearing about its 2015 permit to allow spent nuclear waste to be buried on a Southern California… -
Public Concern Mounts on SONGS Nuclear Waste Storage
By Eric Heinz Time is running out before spent nuclear fuel rods will be buried at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). Although no action was ta -
Wavelegths: Nuking it Out: In a Fight against Storing Radioactive Waste, We Are in the Dark
By Jim Kempton Out of an inescapable curiosity, I attended a forum about the current state of the waste storage for the radioactive fuel rods that -
State utilities commission seeks to close San Onofre proceeding
Five-plus years after the San Onofre nuclear plant leaked radiation and then shuttered for good, state utility regulators have laid out a schedule for closing their review into what went wrong — ev -
Federal appeals court schedules oral arguments in San Onofre lawsuit
The second-highest court in the nation has rescheduled oral arguments in a long-running case challenging the San Onofre nuclear plant settlement that was approved by California regulators in 2014 an -
Balancing act
Solar and nuclear: Can high levels of solar and wind coexist with nuclear generation on the grid? The answer is more complicated than you might think. -
Court settlement looks to move nuclear waste from San Onofre
An out of court settlement was reached between an activist group and the operators of the nuclear power plant in San Onofre.
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Diablo Canyon Update One Year After Historic Joint Proposal
The plan to replace California’s last remaining nuclear plant with lower-cost zero-carbon resources within nine years is on track. -
San Onofre critics question private meetings on waste storage
Long before Southern California Edison sought permission to bury millions of pounds of nuclear waste along the San Diego County coast, utility executives were in close contact with state officials r -
Diablo Canyon warning issued while higher PG&E bills loom
PG&E bills are headed higher by $1.65 a month, state regulators decided Thursday, the same day a consumer group warned that the embattled utility is seeking even higher bills to cover the costs… -
Holtec Applies For Permit To Store San Onofre’s Nuclear Waste In New Mexico
The nuclear waste stored at San Onofre may eventually move to New Mexico. Southern California Edison’s Community Engagement Panel meets Thursday night in Laguna Hills to focus on the latest developments in interim storage options for nuclear waste. -
Public Meeting Focuses On Storage Plans For San Onofre’s Nuclear Waste
More than 100 people showed up to a public meeting at Oceanside City Hall Thursday night that aimed to enroll more citizens in a legal battle to prevent nuclear waste from being buried 100 feet from the ocean at San Onofre. -
San Clemente seeks stronger safeguards for burial of nuclear waste
San Clemente’s City Council will ask the California Coastal Commission to reconsider a permit it issued in 2015 to let Southern California Edison bury 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste beside… -
UPDATE: City Publishes Final Letter to Coastal Commission, Urging Halt of Spent Nuclear Waste Storage
By Eric Heinz Updated 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 4: Click here to real the final draft of the letter to Coastal Commission City Council on Tuesday, May 2, -
Energy Giant Turns 90, Knocks Off Another Nuke
He seems an unlikely giant killer. He’s five foot seven, one sixty-five pounds, has a distinct southern accent and is not an Olympic athlete. And yet, by… -
Update: Surfers Wanted for May Meetings on San Onofre Nuclear Waste Storage
Watchdog groups want your voices to be heard in the battle over where nuclear waste will be buried. -
Customers May Never Know How They Got Stuck with $3.3 Billion Bill For San Onofre Shutdown
The California Public Utilities Commission once again refuses to release scores of emails it exchanged with Governor Jerry Brown’s office over the plant’s closure. -
How will PG&E pay to close Diablo Canyon? Hint: It’ll show up on your electric bill
PG&E has proposed a short-term 1.6 percent average rate increase to pay for some of the costs of closing Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near Avila Beach, including the $350 million employee retention and retraining program, the $85 million settlement to local cities and San Luis Obispo County and up to $62.5 million in future emergency planning costs.
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Diablo Canyon CPUC hearings live are Here.
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San Clemente poised to challenge waste burial at San Onofre
San Clemente is prepared to ask the California Coastal Commission to rescind a permit that it issued in 2015 to let Southern California Edison bury 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste along the… -
PG&E shareholders – not customers – should pay for SLO community funding, says state agency
Hearings start Wednesday morning in San Francisco for Pacific Gas and Electric’s request to retire the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. PG&E -
Diablo Canyon closure hearings to begin this week in San Francisco
The California Public Utilities Commission will begin hearing testimony at 10 a.m. in San Francisco for PG&E’s proposal to close Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant by 2025. The hearing will also be broadcast online. -
Avoiding California’s Fukushima
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) may have stopped running, but the battle over where to store the waste it’s generated over the decades is heating up. Representative Darrell Issa, a long-time incumbent of California’s 49th District (covering parts of Orange and San Diego counties), is not loved by environmentalists. -
5 dramas still playing out 5 years after San Onofre shutdown
Five years ago this week, the San Onofre nuclear plant closed amid billowing steam and leaking radiation. -
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy expects ruling on San Onofre nuclear plant claim by end March: CEO
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (7011.T) (MHI) expects arbitrators to rule by the end of March on a compensation claim related to the shutdown of California’s San Onofre nuclear plant brought by a unit of Edison International (EIX.N). -
NRC nuked cancer study assuming no link between reactors and disease, records showFederal regulators killed a rigorous examination of cancer in millions of Americans living near nuclear plants because they were convinced the study couldn’t link reactors to disease and would be too costly, newly released records show.
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California Focus: SONGS case may whistle different tuneGov. Jerry Brown is not listed as a defendant in a federal
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Diablo Canyon Joint Proposal Reaches Next Milestone in State’s Review ProcessAVILA BEACH – As a joint proposal concerning the future of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) continues to move through the state’s review process, the energy company stated that it is looking forward to carefully reviewing and replying to written responses on the agreement that various groups submitted today to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for consideration.
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Settlement talks are underway to rebalance San Onofre deal
Month after month of negative headlines and bombshell disclosures contributed to the commission’s decision to reopen the San Onofre settlement last May.