Patrick Robbins

I will say that new nuclear tends to be extremely expensive.

You know, the most recent Georgia plant went, you know, $17 billion over budget.

And so...

I think this is something that can get very heated when you go on energy Twitter or whatever.

But we really do take an affordability perspective.

And I keep waiting for somebody to explain to me how this is going to be the best use of our resources if we're going to be investing in the grid.

And I just haven't seen anybody be able to.

to make it make sense, you know?

I will share that part of my response to this just comes from our experience in New York, where I just witnessed our governor tear down years of progress through the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

The framing itself of nuclear as something that we can do as a transitionary measure assumes that we are actually making a transition to renewables.

When we're this far behind schedule,

When we passed the Build Public Renewables Act here in New York in 2023, and we still haven't seen projects breaking ground, I want to see some renewables.

I want to see some storage.

That's my take on this.

Yeah, I mean, I don't want I don't think that these things need to be opposed from a strictly technical perspective, but I see them positioned against each other politically by elected officials and decision makers in the various agencies that govern our electric grid.

Um, and at a time when we're so far behind schedule on building the renewables and the storage capacity that we're supposed to be building, we have a, we have a goal of six gigawatts of storage capacity that the governor herself called for.

Um, you know, and at this, at this point, I, like I said, I want to see, I want to see renewables and storage being built before we can talk about that.

See, this is the position that you end up in, whether it's by design or not.

When we talk about this framing, people make the same...

People say the same thing about the gas fired beaker plants that I mentioned before.