CA power prices up 59 percent after nuke shutdown

From Contra Costa Times:

Federal number crunchers say the shutdown of the seaside San Onofre nuclear plant is partially to blame for a 59 percent increase in wholesale electricity prices for California during the first half of the year.

The Energy Information Administration says the closure also caused a “large and unusual separation” in power prices between the northern and southern parts of the state. Southern California prices were much higher.

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