by Mark Flanagan
Ceres has produced
a new report
called Benchmarking Air Emissions, which shows that the electric
generating business has done a significant job in reducing a variety of
greenhouse gases, notably nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon
dioxide. Nuclear energy does not weigh heavily into the report because
new nuclear power is still a few years away, so only uprates can have
contributed to the report’s profile. Still:
Among the top 100 power producers, Exelon had the eighth lowest CO2
emissions rate in 2011, largely due to its large nuclear and renewable
energy fleet, as well as its investments in nuclear uprates. Even with a
low level of emissions, Exelon reduced its total CO2 emissions by 32 percent and its CO2 emission rate by 40 percent between 2000 and 2011.
It’s
the “even with a low level of emissions” bit I want to focus on here,
because it recognizes that nuclear energy has made a significant
contribution.
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2013/05/low-carbon-emissions-look-to-nuclear.html
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