Re[2]: Conn Yankee shuts down

[BRZGV@ccmail.ceco.com]

     I believe that much of that cheaper power is hydroelectric from 
     Canada.
     
     As far as total power supply to the northeast, what about summer time 
     when you run those wonderful electric air conditioners.  Can anyone 
     remember the term "brown-out".  Of course I may be speaking too early 
     and perhaps their reliability of power will actually increase when 
     they buy more from Canada.
     
     Maybe they'll just melt their transimissions like our friends out west 
     this summer.
     
     It seems the deregulation effort is moving a little fast just to save 
     a few cents on the dollar.
     
     
     Glen Vickers
     Nuclear Power Generation


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Subject: Re: Conn Yankee shuts down
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    12/7/96 1:29 PM


Group:
Sandy Perle wrote, in part:
     
>   With its nuclear arm in mothballs, Northeast Utilities must 
> import up to 2,100 megawatts of power to meet this winter's
> anticipated peak demand of 5,300 MW. It has said it is
> ''cautiously optimistic'' that Connecticut residents will not be 
> left in the cold this winter.
>   As Connecticut Yankee's board was voting to close the plant, 
> top officials at Northeast Utilities were meeting with NRC
> representatives in Waterford, Conn., to explain a long list of 
> nuclear plant violations.
> 
I believe that in the past NE had a contract to import power from 
Canada. Does anyone have current info about this? I ask because the US 
is now taking steps to "de-regulate" electricity and I've been told by a 
Federal official that US citizens will be able to buy power from the 
supplier of their choice in a year or two. If this is true we all may 
want to buy from Canada. Canadian power is cheaper, I believe? Fewer 
rules and resrtictions?
     
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