Total waste of money building that monstrosity.. Two billion down the drain.
Oh joy, anther couple of billion wasted on “ clean” energy that fried birds in flight.
It is already built. Power lines are already connected to it.
Its operating costs are what matters.
Two dozen people at top-dollar rates?
There’s also the fact that California is sometimes electricity short and has to resort to brownouts.
The bigger problem with electricity supply in California is that the electric utilities have not been able to maintain lines safely and now have to pay many billions to rebuild communities. The electric utility system in California might even collapse economically.
“...utility officials said that cutting ties with the plant could lead to lower energy prices for consumers”
I don’t think a single utility in California is worried about lowering consumer electricity costs. The only things they’ve been worried about are satisfying the ultra-greeniacs in CA and satisfying their CA State energy masters (and to a lesser extent their Federal energy masters).
Hmm? Abandoned or cleaned up?
Save money, how big was the loan guaranteed by Californians and other federal taxpayers and how much of it was ‘forgiven’? What is the cost to decommission remove the hazmat and return the land to it’s former state? And who is left holding the bag for that?