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CMU/DAI study finds shutting down US nuclear plants would have significant negative economic and environmental consequences

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The team used NERC forced outage rates for coal and gas to determine available capacity and assumed all production was made up within each NERC region. The number of replacement wind turbines is estimated using 70 meter, 2.5 The calculated cost of generation with the new mix of plants was a lower bound.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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