[strommen]

Thanks for correcting me. And agreed about production vs investment tax credits.

It's unfortunate that the first "victim" of renewable energy is going to be nuclear (another carbon-free energy source). The intermittent nature of solar and wind require other energy sources that can be ramped up late in the evening and early in the morning, and turned off at night. Nuclear plants take days to ramp up, so they can't meet this need.

[philipkglass]

I too am unhappy about clean energy fratricide between renewables and nuclear power. (Though I think that most of the financial pressure on nuclear in the US is actually from shale gas; renewable generation hasn't been able to grow as quickly in absolute terms even though its relative YoY growth has been impressive.) If electricity storage gets cheaper and more abundant, that should help nuclear power too. It means that nuclear generators, like renewables, would be able to charge storage at low-price, low-demand times and discharge/sell at times of high demand. That would tend to displace relatively inefficient marginal supply sources based on fossils, like open cycle gas turbines used as peakers, instead of driving infighting between nuclear power and newer low-emissions sources.