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As nuclear power plants close, states need to bet big on energy storage

  • Written by Eric Daniel Fournier, Post Doctoral Researcher, Spatial Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles
imageThe Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California is closing and the state has committed to replacing it with greenhouse-free sources of electricityDoc Searls, CC BY-NC-SA

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) recently started the process of shutting down the Diablo Canyon generation facility, the last active nuclear power plant in California. The...

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