Daily Standup Top Stories California: We Need *Another* $100 Billion for High-Speed Rail – What is a few billion between friends? ‘March 17, 2024 Stu Turley source: Hot Air: Ed Morrissey: Hey, a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. But apparently not real progress. When I first started writing about California’s high-speed
I just wanted to say a few words about the piece on Pennsylvania. I would be careful about advocating for the replacement of coal fired capacity with natural gas across the board. This is what has happened in Connecticut. The state now relies nearly 60% on natural gas capacity and the remaining 40% comes from one nuclear power plant. Problem in Connecticut now is that the natural gas distribution system is undersized and struggles particularly in winter. This means that Connecticut has to buy LNG on the international spot market. The result is that energy prices in the winter end up being higher than even in California. This is quite a feat. One can't help but wonder what would happen to Connecticut the day the nuclear power plant has a malfunction forcing it to shut down. Instead of simply decommissioning its fleet of coal-fired power plants, the state should have replaced these with the most modern supercritical or ultra supercritical coal power plants. This would have provided the state with a reasonably diversified portfolio.
I just wanted to say a few words about the piece on Pennsylvania. I would be careful about advocating for the replacement of coal fired capacity with natural gas across the board. This is what has happened in Connecticut. The state now relies nearly 60% on natural gas capacity and the remaining 40% comes from one nuclear power plant. Problem in Connecticut now is that the natural gas distribution system is undersized and struggles particularly in winter. This means that Connecticut has to buy LNG on the international spot market. The result is that energy prices in the winter end up being higher than even in California. This is quite a feat. One can't help but wonder what would happen to Connecticut the day the nuclear power plant has a malfunction forcing it to shut down. Instead of simply decommissioning its fleet of coal-fired power plants, the state should have replaced these with the most modern supercritical or ultra supercritical coal power plants. This would have provided the state with a reasonably diversified portfolio.