In 2015 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, political whore that he is, under pressure from Riverkeeper NGO and RFJ Jr, struck a deal to shut down NY’s Indian Point nuclear power plant.
It produced over 2000 MW of power, carbon free and accident-free, which at the time was about 30% of NY City’s caseload power needs. Since its final closure in 2021, that has been replaced with mostly natural gas, NOT “renewables.”
It produced power continuously since 1961, so the plant was fully depreciated and produced power for 3 cents per KWH, for NY City, where average cost of consumer power is about 28-30 cents per KWH
RFJ Jr. hasn’t apologized.