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• The Pope on COP15

  In his role as Sovereign of Vatican City, the Pope gives a speech to ambassadors each year to indicate the positions the state holds on various topics. In this year’s speech, Pope Benedict made it clear he was unhappy with the result of COP15: Speaking in French, he said he shared "the growing concern caused by economic and political resistance to combating the degradation of the environment."... Posted Jan 12 2010, 04:47 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Economics, politics, cop15, pope, vatican, pope benedict

• Saving Money on Your Next Nuclear Plant

  You would be perfectly within your rights to give us the fishy eye if we said anything other than that nuclear energy plants are very expensive to build. Most power plants suffer this problem, because costs are so front-loaded: plants take time to build, introducing bank interest charges, changes in regulation that incur cost and fixed costs on commodities that refuse to stay fixed. But this can work... Posted Nov 12 2009, 04:42 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Economics, Nuclear, regulation, construction, bank, plant, investment

• The Governors and Energy: Chris Christie

  As opposed to Bob McDonnell above, governor-elect Chris Christie of New Jersey tilts rather away from the national Republican party on energy issues. Might not mean anything: It may just be that he has a genuine desire to move New Jersey to solar energy and will clear away hurdles to make it happen. Why the push for solar? Well, the Garden State has an image problem, though one not not actually confirmed... Posted Nov 04 2009, 02:58 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Economics, Solar, politics, Nuclear, energygy

• Nuclear Utility Moves Up in Credit Ratings, Bank is "Comfortable with Nuclear Strategy"

  Some positive signs that nuclear utilities can continue to receive positive ratings even while they finance new nuclear plants for the first time in decades: Wells Fargo upgrades SCANA to Outperform from Market Perform Wells analyst says, "YTD, SCG shares have underperformed the Regulated Electrics (total return +2% vs. +9%). Shares trade at 11.3X our 10E EPS, a modest discount to the peer group... Posted Sep 22 2009, 12:55 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Economics, SCANA, wells fargo, rating, markets, finance

• Loan Guarantees in the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" of 2009

  Today might be the day we find out if $50B in loan volume for the existing loan guarantee clean energy program makes it into the final "stimulus" bill. The Conference Committee members are supposed to meet at 3 pm today to iron out the details. As promised last week when I explained how the loan guarantees were scored , below is page 20 (out of 69 pages) from the Congressional Budget Office's... Posted Feb 11 2009, 11:00 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Loan Guarantees, Economics

• Stimulus Bill Conference Committee Members Announced

  After passing the stimulus plan by a vote of 61 - 37 earlier today, the Senate conference committee members have been announced. Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Majority Leader Max Baucus (D-MT), Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Republican, Finance Committee Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran (R-MS), Ranking Republican, Appropriations Committee, We'll... Posted Feb 10 2009, 02:36 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Loan Guarantees, Economics

• Stimulus Bill Debate

  An interesting segment earlier today on NPR 's Morning Edition : " What Kind Of Green Jobs Will Stimulus Spawn? " This exchange between the reporter, Christopher Joyce, and Karen Harbert , president and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century Energy , caught my ear as I was running out the door. Joyce : Another form of virtually carbon-free baseload electricity is nuclear power. While the... Posted Feb 10 2009, 01:04 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Loan Guarantees, Economics

• Job Growth in the Nuclear Energy Industry

  We are going through one of the most turbulent economic times this country has seen in decades. There's hardly a week nowadays that we don't hear at least several companies laying off employees. Since December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has grown by 3.6 million . However, the nuclear industry is one of the few industries in this country that is actually expanding during these turbulent... Posted Feb 05 2009, 03:25 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Economics, Jobs, forecast

• On The Economics of Nuclear Energy

  From today's Baltimore Sun : A year ago, the leaders of Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group and PPL Corp., its utility neighbor in Pennsylvania, represented the energy industry's sharp division over whether the revival of nuclear power was at hand. Mayo A. Shattuck III, Constellation's chief executive, said the economics were right for a nuclear comeback after 30 years of dormancy... Posted Sep 04 2007, 05:12 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Economics