{"id":20769,"date":"2025-06-28T03:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20769\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:23:14","slug":"hochul-admits-new-york-needs-nuclear-power-but-getting-it-wont-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20769\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul admits New York needs nuclear power \u2014 but getting it won’t be easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news: Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a> has tapped the New York State Power Authority to build the first major new US nuclear power plant<\/a> in over 15 years.<\/p>\n

Bad news: New York\u2019s history of politicians pandering to anti-nuke hysteria will scare off a lot of potential private \u201cpartners\u201d on building the one-gigawatt plant.<\/p>\n

After all, it\u2019s just four years since then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a> forced the early closure of Indian Point \u2014 and four decades since then-Gov. Mario Cuomo killed the $6 billion Shoreham nuke plant before it even opened.<\/p>\n

Hochul has belatedly recognized reality: New York has no hope of coming near meeting any of its clean-energy goals without nuclear power \u2014 and indeed is already hard-pressed for enough generating capacity to meet the natural growth in electric demands.<\/p>\n

For example, Micron\u2019s New York semiconductor plant will require massive amounts of reliable electricity, potentially 1.85 gigawatts at full capacity \u2014 enough to power half a million homes.<\/p>\n

The windmills and solar power plants pushed by the state Climate Action Plan can never meet that need.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n

Yet nuke plants take a long time to build, and getting the state-of-the-art modular reactor Hochul envisions is a lot harder than calling for it.<\/p>\n

The Cuomos\u2019 anti-nuke actions \u2014 Long Islanders are still paying for Shoreham, while Indian Point had supplied 25% of the electricity needed for the city and Westchester \u2014 ensure that any company will demand a huge risk premium before investing a dime in building a nuke plant in the Empire State. <\/p>\n

Which is why Hochul left the door open to the Power Authority footing the bills itself \u2014 without mentioning this means taxpayer support and\/or stiff new fees on utility bills.<\/p>\n

She also didn\u2019t mention that, since any new nuclear plant is 15 or so years off, the state\u2019s going to need new carbon-fueled power plants in the meantime, pushing the Climate Act\u2019s goals even further out of reach.<\/p>\n

Consider it all just a few more reasons we all have the Cuomo clan to thank for a huge chunk of New York\u2019s deep \u201caffordability\u201d problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good news: Gov. Kathy Hochul has tapped the New York State Power Authority to build the first major…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10109,285,4691,19300,19301,5371,405,403,5226,5225,6688,5228,5227,1269,866,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-20769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-climate","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-green-energy","13":"tag-indian-point","14":"tag-kathy-hochul","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-nuclear-power","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-opinion","23":"tag-renewable-energy","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114758851265697571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}