Pennsylvania Law Tries to Cut Electricity Usage

[RaspberrySurprise]

What are these guys smoking? Do they not think of the consequences of their actions? Oh wait they're politicians of course they don't.

[RevDisk]

Eh.  I seriously doubt it would fly so well.  Hey, I have a bright idea.  PA has 5 nuclear facilities and 9 operational reactors (excluding Penn State's experimental reactor that is not allowed to be used commercially).   Why not just allow more building permits and float a loan if you want to eliminate the power issue?  Plus probably be able to sell power to surrounding states at a fat profit.  Naaaa.  Way too easy to sit back and collect taxes.  Fine's are so much better than improving your state's business environment. 

Our nuke plants generate 9,229 MW combined, on very old design reactors.   Why not make PA a poster for nuclear power and research?  We have state schools with nuclear programs, we have plenty of experienced nuke plant operators, and we have plenty of construction/manufacturing firms capable of actually building these plants.

[Werewolf]

"Simple to implement - really. Just turn off the generators for 14m 24s a day. Voila - 1% savings."

That's a 1% time savings, not a 1% usage savings.

Usage at 5 p.m. on a hot summer day is going to be a LOT more than usage at 3 a.m. on a cool, fall day.

[Homer Simpson]Doh!<smacks forehead>[/Homer Simpson]

You are correct sir! Major Brain Fart on my Part.

[txgho1911]

you selfish people need to turn the lights out.

[Gewehr98]

Whoa!

Thread Necromancer Alert! 

[Lennyjoe]

By July 1, each utility must file a plan with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to achieve the cuts

Breaking news, July 1 2009. 
   The Pennsylvania utility companies today told the commission to sweat out the summer as they refuse to turn on the electric until the commission    withdraws the previous mandate.  In a fit of panic, the commission withdrew the threat of possible 20 million dollar fines. 

[erictank]

EDIT: Sorry for unknowingly contributing to thread necromancy - just responded to what showed as a "new" thread.  Didn't realize it was old stuff till I got to G98's post on the second page here.

[Harold Tuttle]

Maybe the university ought to harness their reactor into the PSU grid and cut the universities expenses

That would require running it like a business though...

No electricity is produced by the Penn State reactor facility because it is used entirely for research, education, and service.

The idea of turning Pa. into a nuke economy powerhouse is a good one though.

That would be a lot of high tech and skilled manufacturing work.

[Thylacine]

Easy answer.
Cut power to the Capital and all the legislators homes.
That should make the reduction. 

[Uncle Bubba]

Stick with me thru the setup, it does pertain to some of the comments here.

A newsletter I get had a tale about yet another fascist invasion of privacy law intended to protect children in the UK - they're going to have a database of ALL children in GB for "proper authorities only" to access and decide when and where (not "if", you'll notice) to intercede - but have already said that provision will be made for celebrities and politicians (?) to keep their kiddies' info off it "to protect their privacy".

The newsletter author said, "Here's a novel idea. Write into every new law that it has to apply to politicians first."

[RevDisk]

Maybe the university ought to harness their reactor into the PSU grid and cut the universities expenses

That would require running it like a business though...
The idea of turning Pa. into a nuke economy powerhouse is a good one though.

That would be a lot of high tech and skilled manufacturing work.

The PSU reactor is not allowed to do any commercial generation, even internally.  Plus, it's not exactly designed to do commercial power generation.  Unless you want grad students, fresh off a weekend drinking binge, re-engineering a nuclear reactor...  Yea, we'll call that one a miss.    

PA is pretty nuke intensive as it is.  We have the second highest nuclear power generation in the US, according to DOE stats.  Always room for more, of course. 

Worst case scenerio, PA makes money off licensing its terrain to Fallout 3 for another expansion pack.