The Point Lepreau nuclear plant has been out of service for more than five months. NB Power says the main generator will be fixed by mid-November but the extent of the damage suggests the outage will continue long past that date.
After mid-November, as electric baseboard heaters are turned up, NB Power will need to generate even more power from the expensive and polluting fossil fuel-fired power plants on the grid. Meanwhile, the utility continues to pay the huge carrying costs of Point Lepreau even while it’s producing nothing.
We need a prudent plan to get out of this mess. Modern renewable energy and storage technology can help us do that.
Read the rest of this article by CRED-NB core member Tom McLean HERE, published in the NB Media Co-op on September 12, 2024.