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Friday, August 3, 2012

California PUC delays start of investigation into San Onofre shutdown

Financial probe delayed at damaged Cal nuke plant

CBS News -
LOS ANGELES — The head of the California Public Utilities Commission recommended Thursday that the agency delay for several months an investigation into soaring costs tied to the damaged San Onofre nuclear power plant. At issue is who is going to pay ...

San Onofre investigation is postponed

Los Angeles Times 
California Public Utilities Commission postpones decision to investigate San Onofre nuclear plant's troubles. As costs of the San Onofre nuclear plant outage continue to mount, the California Public Utilities Commission postponed a decision to open an ...

Calif regulators pushed on San Onofre nuke probe

CBS News -
Calif regulators pushed on San Onofre nuke probe. LOS ANGELES — Consumer and environmental advocates pressured California regulators Thursday to open a probe into soaring costs tied to the damaged San Onofre nuclear power plant. At issue is who ...

LETTER TO COMMUNITY: Sign petition to close down San Onofre nuclear plant

San Diego Gay & Lesbian News -
Eight million people in California will soon be endangered by America's most dangerous nuclear power plant if Southern California Edison power company has its way. The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), which sits on the beach between ...

Anti-Nuke Activists Strike Deal With Labor Over San Onofre Outage: Call for ...

San Diego Free Press 
Safety Advocates Strike Exceptional Pact with Labor. One of the items approved on the agenda of the California Democratic Party's Executive Board meeting in Anaheim this past weekend was a resolution that calls for an independent design review and ...

CPUC Head Wants Delay of San Onofre Investigation

San Diego Reader (blog) -
Michael Peevey, head of the California Public Utilities Commission, recommended yesterday (Aug. 2) that the agency delay for several months an investigation into billowing costs tied to damage at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, according to the ...

STATE PUC POSTPONES PROBE INTO SAN ONOFRE

U-T San Diego -
State utility regulators on Thursday postponed a proposed investigation into the economic consequences of an extended outage at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. California Public Utilities Commission Chairman Michael Peevey indicated that ...

San Onofre restart dates? Not quite, Edison says

Power Engineering Magazine -
A year-end restart of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's idled reactors is not being planned or targeted, the operator of the troubled power plant says, despite dates in public documents appearing to suggest otherwise. The documents, filed with the ...

Tab for ailing California nuke plant hits $165M

Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (subscription) 
LOS ANGELES — The tab for the long-running crisis at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California has hit at least $165 million, and it would cost $25 million more to get one of the damaged reactors running at reduced power, officials said this week.

EDITORIAL: Not the fault of ratepayers

North County Times -
The mounting costs of diagnosing and perhaps repairing the fairly new generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant can most charitably be described as sobering. So far, operators of the plant ---- which include Southern California Edison and San Diego ...

Edison International Reports 2Q 2012 Results

Power Engineering Magazine -
Edison International reported second quarter 2012 basic earnings of $0.23 per share, compared to basic earnings of $0.54 per share in the same quarter last year. In a release dated July 31, the Company said that second quarter 2012 core earnings were ...

Advocates Continue To Seek San Onofre Probe

KGTV San Diego -
At issue is who is going to pay a bill that has reached $165 million for repairs, inspections and replacement power. On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission postponed voting for the second time on an order requiring Southern California Edison ...

ENERGY: State again delays decision on nuke plant probe

North County Times -
The California Public Utilities Commission has again held off opening its own investigation into the shutdown at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The commission, which controls the purse strings for utility projects in the state, was set to vote Thursday ...

California PUC delays start of investigation into San Onofre shutdown

Platts -
California PUC delays start of investigation into San Onofre shutdown. Los Angeles (Platts)--2Aug2012/553 pm EDT/2153 GMT. The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday chose to delay opening a probe of the San Onofre nuclear plant outages, ...

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