Here’s the inaugural article on CGNP’s substack. This article explains why synchronous grid inertia is vitally important to assure grid reliability. Diablo Canyon Power Plant provides significant synchronous grid inertia for the California power grid. There’s a photograph and five footnotes for further exploration. Presently, there is an “electronic moat” around Substack that essentially prevents

February 16, 2024                Lavish Opposition Lobbying Likely Culprit     The independent nonprofit Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) played a pioneering role in the December 18, 2023 news that Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s (DCPP’s) operations would be extended at least until 2030. CPUC votes in favor of 5-year

  The image above the headline was the 8.5 x 11 inch handout CGNP distributed at the Downtown SLO Farmer’s Market on Thursday night, December 14, 2023. By 2030+, CGNP anticipates that DCPP will run beyond 2030.  My wife and I sat through the entire CPUC meeting earlier in the day via the Commission’s web

Governor Newsom Signed SB 846 on September 2, 2022.  FLASH! On October 26, 2023, the CPUC issued a PD which extends DCPP’s operation at least until 2030. CPUC’s Proposed Decision  On October 23, 2023, CGNP filed an accepted motion with the CPUC CGNP Request for Official Notice Accepted 11 02 23 for the CPUC to

“Charles Komanoff was for decades an expert witness for groups working against nuclear plants, delivering blistering critiques so effective that he earned a spot at the podium when tens of thousands of protesters descended on Washington in 1979 over the Three Mile Island meltdown. “Komanoff would go on to become an unrelenting adversary of Diablo