Zero energy credits won’t save Entergy’s Indian Point plant, which will be sold to Holtec for decommissioning after its units are shuttered, the companies announced this month. States that want to subsidize nuclear power plants got a boost from the U.S. Supreme Court April 15 when it refused to hear a petition challenging a lower court decision that certain subsidies do not interfere with federal regulatory authority. Challengers say the question now is left to federal regulators.
Two lower courts previously upheld zero-emissions subsidy programs in New York and Illinois that provide payments to nuclear plants that could no longer […]
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