Yes, Indian Point is good for NYC

La Grange Park, Ill.: The New York Independent System Operator says the grid can manage without Indian Point nuclear power plant. Yet, NYISO frets about ongoing retirements of fossil fuel-fired “peaker” plants under clean air rules. “With full implementation of the peaker rule assumed in 2025,” NYISO’s 2019-2028 Comprehensive Reliability Plan warned, “the New York bulk power system as a whole would significantly exceed the threshold of one loss of load event in ten years” — as in a blackout — “due to a supply deficiency.” Consequently, “the transmission system would be unable to reliably serve the forecasted load” across southeast N.Y. and NYC.

NYISO’s Power Trends 2020 added that intermittent renewables are incapable of ensuring grid reliability, as they are “unable to follow dispatch signals from the grid operator to increase production in the same manner as fossil fuel.”

Indian Point is downstate’s only zero-carbon energy resource capable of keeping the lights on without increasing emissions.

Hard fall

Unfortunately, many of these victims were survivors of the Great Depression, WWII and/ or the Korean War. Combined, they are known as the “Greatest Generation.” It’s a damn shame that our current younger generations, maybe because they felt the virus wouldn’t hospitalize or kill them, felt that they didn’t need to wear masks, social distance and reduce their amount of partying to help curb the spread. Our country lost a lot of great Americans. Please mask up, social distance and limit your gatherings and we will get through this. Help save a life. It may be someone you know.

Reduce risk

Proponents of keeping schools open during the pandemic cite Europe as an example, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel had the good sense to close them when the nation went into a full shutdown. If New York City has to pause/close again, so should the schools. We deserve no less.