If governors cared about the climate they wouldn't oppose nuclear energy

End energy subsidies and leave the field to players that can meet CO2-reduction demands while providing reliable energy.

"How devastating would it be for a state to lose all the energy from its vast wind-power apparatus  in the middle of a global energy crisis? Michigan is about to find out.

The state soon will lose at least 5.8 million annual megawatt hours of carbon dioxide-free energy production. That’s an amount equal to all the energy produced by the wind industry that Michigan has built up over the past 13 years, at a cost of more than $5 billion.

This loss of CO2-free energy deals a traumatic blow to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to take the state to zero emissions by 2050. Yet hardly anybody’s talking about it — certainly not the governor herself.

This large, reliable, emissions-free source of electricity is the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on Lake Michigan. The 811-kilowatt plant will shut down in May, about 10 years before its operating license expires. Palisades owner Entergy, facing perverse pricing challenges in the energy market, decided in 2017 to operate the plant until this year, following complicated negotiations with the Michigan Public Service Commission. Palisades has produced electricity since 1973 and provides about 6.8 million megawatt hours of energy per year."

Photo: MI Governor Gretchen Whitmer must put nuclear power back on the table. Her superstitious opposition to it give her state's ambitious carbon dioxide-reduction plans no hope of success.