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Evacuations ease load on grid as utilities get ready
Taking Florida's nuclear plants offline won't stress the grid, experts say, because electricity use is dropping as thousands flee the state in advance of Hurricane Irma.
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Kristi E. Swartz and Edward Klump, E&E News reporters
Taking Florida's nuclear plants offline won't stress the grid, experts say, because electricity use is dropping as thousands flee the state in advance of Hurricane Irma.
The Trump administration has cleared the way for a controversial project that would suck groundwater from under Southern California's Mojave Desert and sell it to water providers.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs and Michael Doyle in Greenwire
SCOVILLE, Idaho — Nuclear power for the grid was born here in 1951, when an experimental reactor's football-sized core sent current flowing to a quartet of lightbulbs.
By Peter Behr in Energywire
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The Trump administration has cleared the way for a controversial project that would suck groundwater from under Southern California's Mojave Desert and sell it to water providers.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs and Michael Doyle in Greenwire
SCOVILLE, Idaho — Nuclear power for the grid was born here in 1951, when an experimental reactor's football-sized core sent current flowing to a quartet of lightbulbs.
By Peter Behr in Energywire