Here in California we are climate heroes, right?
Just this week, several California agencies including the Energy Commission,
the PUC, and the Air Resources Board hosted a public workshop on implementation
of SB-100 which lays out California’s clean energy target of 100 percent by
2050.
There was a lot of good discussion surrounding
challenges to meeting this goal. Here are just a few: Many of the technologies
proposed do not exist yet. Many of the low-carbon resources will be expensive
to build and maintain. We have made progress with efficiency and conservation,
but we will need a lot more electricity if we want to electrify other sectors
to reduce emissions.
But one topic was suspiciously missing from all
discussion — our single largest source of carbon-free electricity, nuclear.