A quick summary on VYa s continued operation

Prior to a discussion on Vermont Public Radio's "Vermont Edition" between Jay Thayer, a vice president at Entergy, and Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin over the fate of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, host Bob Kinzel asked VPR correspondent John Dillon, to describe how the Legislature gave itself the power to say yea or nay ...

[NSTAR]

Current electricity bill for Boston area:

Delivery 8 cents/kWh
Generation 9.2 cents/kWh
Total 17.2 cents/kWh

A year ago the total was 20 cent/kWh

You folks have a great deal!
Why should Vermont elect this Shumlin character?

[John Ward]

NSTAR wrote:

Current electricity bill for Boston area:
Delivery 8 cents/kWh
Generation 9.2 cents/kWh
Total 17.2 cents/kWh
A year ago the total was 20 cent/kWh
You folks have a great deal!
Why should Vermont elect this Shumlin character?

Sorry NSTAR but you are quoting retal rates. Wholesale in Boston right now is 3.705 cents. wholesale in VT right now is 3.810 cents. VYs price to VT under their old contract is 4.2 cents and will be higher.

[NSTAR]

Yes, I'm quoting from my electric bill. That's where it impacts me as a consumer. As we both know the wholesale market is not very steady right now. I'm simply pointing out the Vermont has a good deal. Disagree?

[NSTAR]

The following statistics illustrate the regional electricity pricing differences.
· In Vermont the total average price of electricity for all sectors is 11.43 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh).
Compared to the region, prices in Vermont are:
o 21.3 percent lower than New England (14.52 cents per/kWh);
o 25.8 percent lower than Massachusetts (15.40 cents per/kWh); and
o 17.8 percent lower than New Hampshire (13.90 cents per/kWh).
· Vermont’s residential customers pay the lowest rates in New England, with an average of 13.54
cents/kWh. Vermont’s residential electricity costs are:
o 16.6 percent lower than New England (16.22 cents/kWh);
o 20.4 percent lower than Massachusetts (17.01 cents/kWh); and
o 8.9 percent lower than New Hampshire (14.85 cents/kWh).
· Vermont’s commercial customers pay the lowest rates in New England, with an average of 11.7
cents/kWh. Compared to the region commercial costs are:
o 19.76 percent lower than New England (14.58 cents/kWh);
o 26.05 percent lower than Massachusetts (15.82 cents/kWh); and
o 15.16 percent lower than New Hampshire (13.79 cents/kWh).
· Vermont’s industrial customers pay the lowest rates in New England, with an average of 8.34
cents/kWh. Compared to the region industrial costs are:
o 24.6 percent lower than New England (11.06 cents/kWh);
o 26.72 percent lower than Massachusetts (11.38 cents/kWh); and
o 35.42 percent lower than New Hampshire (12.16 cents/kWh).

[Mike Mulligan]

1 Wyoming 6.30
2 West Virginia 6.51
3 Washington 6.85
4 Idaho 7.07
5 Kentucky 7.11
6 Louisiana 7.19
7 North Dakota 7.28
8 Montana 7.36
9 Utah 7.54
10 Oregon 7.58
11 South Dakota 7.63
12 Indiana 7.66
13 Oklahoma 7.70
14 Nebraska 8.14
15 Arkansas 8.38
16 Tennessee 8.42
17 Missouri 8.53
18 Kansas 8.59
19 New Mexico 8.61
20 South Carolina 8.71
21 Minnesota 8.77
22 Mississippi 8.85
23 Iowa 8.87
24 Colorado 8.88
25 North Carolina 8.97
26 Virginia 9.05
27 Alabama 9.06
28 Illinois 9.13
29 Georgia 9.48
30 Ohio 9.59
31 Wisconsin 9.62
32 Pennsylvania 9.82
33 Michigan 10.20
34 Arizona 10.36
35 Texas 10.39
National Average 10.42
36 Nevada 11.49
37 Florida 11.51
38 Delaware 12.26
39 Maine 12.55
40 Vermont 12.79
41 Rhode Island 13.13
42 Maryland 13.57
43 District of Columbia 14.12
44 California 15.29
45 New Hampshire 15.47
46 Massachusetts 15.50
47 Alaska 15.57
48 New Jersey 16.32
49 Connecticut 17.08
50 New York 17.23
51 Hawaii 20.06

[Get Real People]

http://www.eredux.com/states/state_detail.php...
I fail to understand why NH and MA continue to ping on VT.

[Mike Mulligan]

What is it, 80% of the states have cheaper electricity than us and Vermont has a lot of poor people?

[The Brattleboro Informer]

NSTAR wrote:

Current electricity bill for Boston area:
Delivery 8 cents/kWh
Generation 9.2 cents/kWh
Total 17.2 cents/kWh
A year ago the total was 20 cent/kWh
You folks have a great deal!
Why should Vermont elect this Shumlin character?

The good people of Vermont will not elect a liberal loon from Windham County.

[John Ward]

[QUOTE
I fail to understand why NH and MA continue to ping on VT.[/QUOTE]Because VT has a nuke plant that affects MA and NH which needs to close.

[Get Real People]

Mike Mulligan wrote:

What is it, 80% of the states have cheaper electricity than us and Vermont has a lot of poor people?

They are using Coal Mike. Coal is abundant and cheap in this country.

[Get Real People]

John Ward wrote:

<quoted text>Because VT has a nuke plant that affects MA and NH which needs to close.

Prove your case John. How is VY "affecting" MA? BTW, NH also has a nuke plant.

[John Ward]

Get Real People wrote:

<quoted text>Prove your case John. How is VY "affecting" MA? BTW, NH also has a nuke plant.

So does MA. I don't feel I need to use my time proving a case to you. some understand, some don't. so what?

[Get Real People]

John Ward wrote:

<quoted text>So does MA. I don't feel I need to use my time proving a case to you. some understand, some don't. so what?

John, the only way that VY is affecting you in MA is that it is avoiding 2.8 million tons of CO2 greenhouse gas emissions each year.

[John Ward]

Get Real People wrote:

<quoted text>John, the only way that VY is affecting you in MA is that it is avoiding 2.8 million tons of CO2 greenhouse gas emissions each year.

What comes out of the 200' stack? Butterflys and rose petals? where did the cobalt-60 come from? Is there any Tritium in CT river too? Why does it even need fenceline monitors? Just what are we going to do with the waste? Do we trust Enrontergy or Enronexus or whatever their name is this week? There is no safe level of exposure for ionizing radiation and there are radionuclide emissions from that reactor whether or not they fall within federal guidelines so do not try to tell me that the reactor is not affecting my world. My world, and my brothers and sisters, are not constrained to the artificial borders called Massachusetts. My brothers and sisters live on reservations where uranium is mined. They live in Barnwell. They live in Piketon and Paducah. They fish in the Arctic Circle where there are radionuclides from French reprocessing. Don't tell me your sweet, valued, dear VY is not [messing] up my world.

[Nah]

John Ward wrote:

<quoted text>What comes out of the 200' stack? Butterflys and rose petals? where did the cobalt-60 come from? Is there any Tritium in CT river too? Why does it even need fenceline monitors? Just what are we going to do with the waste? Do we trust Enrontergy or Enronexus or whatever their name is this week? There is no safe level of exposure for ionizing radiation and there are radionuclide emissions from that reactor whether or not they fall within federal guidelines so do not try to tell me that the reactor is not affecting my world. My world, and my brothers and sisters, are not constrained to the artificial borders called Massachusetts. My brothers and sisters live on reservations where uranium is mined. They live in Barnwell. They live in Piketon and Paducah. They fish in the Arctic Circle where there are radionuclides from French reprocessing. Don't tell me your sweet, valued, dear VY is not [messing] up my world.

There are countless other toxins and carcinogens out there, in far greater concentrations. It's just easy and convenient to ping on VY because it is a faceless corporation. It also happens to be a competitor to your solar business.

[Mike Mulligan]

Yea, in other times we were fixated on increasing the efficiency of producing cars so everyone could have them, now everyone is fixated on carbon emissions.

[Mike Mulligan]

Entergy just has a ideology that people interpret as not trust worthy...this ideology is not adequate to carry the public relation of the nuclear industry.

[comeonmike]

Mike Mulligan wrote:

What is it, 80% of the states have cheaper electricity than us and Vermont has a lot of poor people?

Vermont has a lot of poor people because Vermont is anti business and the only business they want is the types of business that pay minimum wage.

Additionally, 80% of the states are not in the North East. They have state goverments that promote business and allow utilities to build and run the types of plants that allow cheap electicity and they regulate the utilites. The North East deregulated years ago because they thought it would be cheaper. You play you pay.

[comeonmike]

Mike Mulligan wrote:

Entergy just has a ideology that people interpret as not trust worthy...this ideology is not adequate to carry the public relation of the nuclear industry.

So Mike when was it you last stepped a foot in sides the gates of VY? Give me a month/year. When did you last work for Entergy? My guess is you are still mad because you got the boot from the previous owners of the station and can not get over it so you keep making up stories and lies to make yourself feel better about lossing a good paying job.

[what]

John Ward wrote:

<quoted text>What comes out of the 200' stack? Butterflys and rose petals? where did the cobalt-60 come from? Is there any Tritium in CT river too? Why does it even need fenceline monitors? Just what are we going to do with the waste? Do we trust Enrontergy or Enronexus or whatever their name is this week? There is no safe level of exposure for ionizing radiation and there are radionuclide emissions from that reactor whether or not they fall within federal guidelines so do not try to tell me that the reactor is not affecting my world. My world, and my brothers and sisters, are not constrained to the artificial borders called Massachusetts. My brothers and sisters live on reservations where uranium is mined. They live in Barnwell. They live in Piketon and Paducah. They fish in the Arctic Circle where there are radionuclides from French reprocessing. Don't tell me your sweet, valued, dear VY is not [messing] up my world.

The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!! Go seal yourself in a plastic bubble with no electricity or other man made material and enjoy yourself.