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What s next for decommissioned Indian Point
Sale approved to Holtec; Oversight board to monitor decommissioning process
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Indian Point, pictured above, officially closed at the end of April. This week, the nuclear plant was transferred to New Jersey-based Holtec International to begin the decommissioning process.Kena Betancur/Getty Images
Indian Point, a nuclear power plant just south of Peekskill and about 35 miles north of Times Square, officially closed on April 30. This week, key stakeholders came to an agreement about how to begin the decommissioning process of the plant.
On May 19, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) approved the sale and transfer of Indian Point to the New Jersey-based Holtec International to lead this process. The move was criticized by environmental groups like Riverkeeper, a clean-water advocate, who question Holtec s experience decommissioning nuclear power plants and spent fuel management.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 30th of April in recent years..the 60 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 51 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but was well below the average addition of 81 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 103 billion cubic feet added to natural
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The concept of a moratorium has been included as a recommendation, though consensus on it was not reached among all panel members, said Sarah Osgood, panel chair and director of policy implementation at the New York State Department of Public Service, during a remotely held meeting of the panel. We had presented at our last meeting that there was a concept of a moratorium on new and repowered gas facilities and that has been incorporated as a component of a recommendation, Osgood said.
Based on public comments, there was generally broad support for the advisory panel s agenda with lots of support for energy efficiency and renewables as well as energy storage and a lot of calls for equity and urgency of action, Osgood said.