This is a good summary of the generation-specific costs.
I went down the rabbit hole on Craig Station a few months ago (around the time they dropped their lawsuit). They had stockpiled the remaining coal reserves they needed to wind down the full station (first unit planned for retirement in 2025 and phased wind down for all units by 2028) and had already put the associated coal mines into care and maintenance/decommissioning. So now the rate payers get the additional burden of costs for restarting processing plants and staffing up skilled mine workers.
There are a lot of knock on effects that DOE clearly doesn’t understand, and they are weakening grid integrity and driving up electricity prices by playing politics.
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This is a good summary of the generation-specific costs.
I went down the rabbit hole on Craig Station a few months ago (around the time they dropped their lawsuit). They had stockpiled the remaining coal reserves they needed to wind down the full station (first unit planned for retirement in 2025 and phased wind down for all units by 2028) and had already put the associated coal mines into care and maintenance/decommissioning. So now the rate payers get the additional burden of costs for restarting processing plants and staffing up skilled mine workers.
There are a lot of knock on effects that DOE clearly doesn’t understand, and they are weakening grid integrity and driving up electricity prices by playing politics.