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Marc Jacobsen speaking at the Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Engagement Panel

Energy expert, Marc Jacobsen speaks at the Sept 24 2025 meeting of the Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Engagement Panel to explain why we do not neet the electricity from Diablo Canyon for our grid needs. "So I've been tracking, as I mentioned, California's supply and demand every day for the last three years. And there was a period of a couple months when Diablo County, both reactors were totally down and nothing bad happened whatsoever. I mean, all it did was allow the solar and wind, which are already overproducing during several of those months to still overproduce, but just not as overproducing as much. There's no intrinsic reason to keep the cost of keeping Diablo Canyon open. I mean, the cost is billions and billions of dollars. You can take that extra subsidy. There's subsidies going into this, and the subsidies being used can just pay for the new batteries and solar and wind to replace Diablo Canyon. So that is a fact. You can just look at all the subsidy costs and replace it with clean renewable energy. Diablo Canyon is only supplying 2.2 gigawatts, right? The average grid demand is 24 gigawatts and the peak is like 50 gigawatts. So it's never going to go above 2.2. So 2.2 out of 50 is nothing. I mean, how is that helping grid stability when it's providing one 25th the peak demand? It's not, you can't raise its peak demand beyond 2.2 gigawatts. So it's not helping bridge stability, it's just providing extra electricity and we're paying a lot of extra money for it. California's rates are way higher because of it."