Environmental Impact Statement - radioactive monticello

the coal chain What about all the security threats from the nukes and all of the routine
releases from the nukes and the catastrophic threats that nuclear power represents
Appendix A
If we're going to work out of those binds, we will need to make a transition. And CBED is a
profound tool that will enable that transition to happen. Right now it's true. It's for wind, and we
recognize that wind can be an intermittent resource, not a base-load resource. And we all like
to have the lights turned on even when the wind isn't blowing.
But it's also true that CBED projects provide an opportunity for us to now move forward to the
hybrid systems where wind is married to combustion technologies. And right now -- well, there
is the Public Utilities Commission meets next week, where we will be authorizing a test burn of
a 2-megawatt diesel generator to a wind system in Southwest Minnesota in Rock County by
Luverne.
And what will happen there is we're going to figure out how, as the wind tapers off, the
combustion capacity can come on. And before very long, before this year is out, we'll have a
pretty good handle on how to handle about 600 megawatts of peak during the year, which will
be extremely lucrative to power producers because having 600 megawatts -- 600 hours, having
a megawatt available on demand for 600 hours a year, your call utility, that's worth about six or
seven thousand dollars a month, in addition to the energy, to have the capacity.
So we have the economic opportunity for this development to happen. And before two or three
years -are up, we'll'be down on the shoulders of that peak. We'll be up to 14, 16, 1800 hours a
year. And before this plant gets renewed, we're going to be swinging with a load duration curve
just like Sherco 3 does. And then we're in business. (MS-D-3).
Comment: And as an afterthought, we go through the IRP, the Integrated Resource Planning
process, to figure something out about conservation, because that's in the public good. Well,
we're going to figure out at some point it is my fondest hope -- well, maybe second fondest --
that we figure out how to tie the financial health of the utility systems to what we all really want,
which is the efficient use of resources, rather than the wasteful consumption..
And when we do that, we're going to find that we're wasting right now well over 50, 60, 70
percent of all of the kilowatt hours we consume. We don't need to if what we're focused on is
how to get us the light that we want, or the refrigeration that we want, or the industrial drive that
we want, rather than just selling bulk kilowatt hours.
So these are changes that are coming at you, NRC, in the time period that you're looking at for
renewing this license. And I'm just really, I'm confused as to how you are going .to evaluate
that. (MS-D-5)
Comment: But when you consider alternatives, which you need to do, I would like to urge you
to consider putting coal gasification that is slated to go elsewhere in Minnesota down here
August 2006 A-31 NUREG-1437, Supplement 26 I