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Today’s most pro-Exelon spin
Thursday, May 27, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller * Q98.5, Rockford’s #1 New Country station…
Um, Exelon is the one threatening to close three nuclear power plants if it doesn’t get hundreds of millions of dollars in ratepayer subsidies, despite an independent audit showing it doesn’t need nearly that much.
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- TheInvisibleMan - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:14 pm:
FM radio is the new AM radio.
- JS Mill - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:14 pm:
LOL, yeah you are right Rich but this is Byron Nuke plant country and Excelon, our local GQP legislators, and local mayors have been working hard on the misinformation campaign.
- Rabid - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:14 pm:
Nice to hear from Q
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:23 pm:
I’d call this the “Blazing Saddles Threat”
Orson Welles type of radio theatrics?
- Keyrock - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:24 pm:
The Thomson federal prison camp isn’t that long a drive from Rockford. Some Exelon assets could soon end up decommissioned there.
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:40 pm:
I thought these yahoos just wanted a new state, not a New Country. /s
- PublicServant - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:44 pm:
These Rockford reporters are really batting 1000 today
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:53 pm:
The author of the “article” has this as his bio: “I’m an energetic dad, frequent coffee spiller, DJ, emcee, a radio personality, and there’s a good chance I’ll say something stupid.”
Well, he certainly nailed it on the last bit.
- low level - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:54 pm:
Clean Energy - that’s very nice, but the point here is that the company is asking for subsidies to continue operating.
- Gohawks123 - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:02 pm:
Exelon is awful
- thechampaignlife - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:13 pm:
A power plant that is closed has no value. If anything, it costs them lots of money to mothball a plant. I say we call their bluff, let them start the closing process, then sweep in using eminent domain to take over the operations at a bargain. Maybe they should even pay the state for taking this distressed assets off their hands. Surely we can do the job for far less than the hundreds of millions in subsidies.
- Commisar Gritty - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:15 pm:
The mendacity!
- Clean Energy Fan - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:29 pm:
“but the point here is that the company is asking for subsidies to continue operating”
What amount is Exelon seeking? I wonder what it would cost to replace that same energy level with a new solar farm? Nuclear Energy is some of the cleanest energy we can produce.
- Motambe - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 5:21 pm:
Hit and run journalism.
- Anonymous - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 6:22 pm:
Americas largest solar farm, Solar Star outside LA, is 1.7 million individual solar panels on 3200 acres. It’s maximum output is 600 MW or roughly 1/4 of a dual unit nuke.
- TheAdvertisingDept - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 8:04 pm:
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