by Meredith Angwin | Sep 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
To my delight, a recent FERC ruling was fair in its treatment of nuclear power and other generating systems. (FERC is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.) Unfortunately, it’s hard to explain a FERC ruling because all FERC rulings come with a long...
by Meredith Angwin | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured 1, Uncategorized
As the summer winds down, dangerous things are happening on the grid. As an example, nobody thinks the California rolling blackouts are over. As a matter of fact, it might not be too far-fetched to say, “If you are hopeful about the grid right now, you aren’t paying...
by Meredith Angwin | Jul 13, 2017 | Featured 1, Uncategorized
Tips for Publishing Op-Eds and Letters Pro-nuclear op-eds and letters-to-the-editor reach a large audience. While many newspapers do indeed struggle with decreasing circulations, newspapers such as the Mercury News of San Jose California have daily circulation...
by Meredith Angwin | Jul 5, 2017 | Featured 2, Uncategorized
Trolls on your website In my book, Campaigning for Clean Air, I state my philosophy of blogging: No Trolls! I strongly believe that you should not allow trolls onto your blog. Your blog has your name on it. What you allow to be posted is your own business....
by Meredith Angwin | Jul 4, 2017 | Featured 3, Uncategorized
Happy Independence Day! Was Hamilton pro-nuclear? Well, of course he wasn’t. Nuclear power was not available in the 1780s. But my title isn’t just clickbait. Many of us have renewed interest in our founding fathers, partially due to Lin-Manuel...
by Meredith Angwin | Jun 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Ohio Problem Ohio has two nuclear plants (Davis Besse and Perry) that add up to about 2000 MW of clean power. Ohio also has about 14,000 MW of coal fired plants. Some of the coal fired plants may close soon, to be replaced by natural gas. The Ohio Solution You...