"You'll get nothing and like it!"
Just a nice friendly reminder to all CA residents to remember this little episode when the next series of blackouts hits. This little debacle cost almost 1600 MW of capacity in the western states. Throwing away Rancho Seco for no good reason cost about 900 MW. SONGS-1 cost about 450 MW. Trojan cost another 1100 MW. That's over 4000 MW of capacity, or a little over 4 million average households of electricity use. The wackos told us "conservation" and "alternate energy sources" were going to make up the loss. Well, we see the result, electricity shortages and horrendous price spikes, which always happen when a commodity is in short supply with conditions of high demand. Wha hoppen, wackos, those "renewable" energy sources couldn't carry the load? You betcha they can't.
Somewhere, I read that conventional renewable energy sources(that is, NON superconducting, non nuclear), like wind, solar and geothermal power, could not be expected to handle more than about 5% of the average power needs, in the best-case scenario!!