https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article...
Diablo Canyon was expected to stop operating its twin reactors in 2024 and 2025, but the state failed to procure enough clean energy to replace the plant in time. In September, the California State Legislature passed Senate Bill 846, which allocated $1.4 billion to PG&E to fund the nuclear power plant’s license renewal costs for staying open through 2030.
That was followed by a $1.1 billion grant to PG&E in November from the U.S. Department of Energy through President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law.
The NRC in March told PG&E it can run Diablo Canyon past its original closure dates without a current license as long as the utility company submits a valid license renewal application for the two reactors by the end of 2023.
PG&E has said it will file a license renewal application for Diablo Canyon by the end of this year.
https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/6/why...
It seems like a big chunk of the Democratic party started supporting nuclear power at roughly the same time. The IRA passed a few months later, with subsidies for nuclear.
Mine doesn't have an internal heater, so I make sure to keep it disconnected from the solar panels when it is cold out.
I live in a warm weather area so it was worth the cost difference for me at the time. Worst case, I can just get a simple 12v heating pad for it.
[0] https://www.relionbattery.com/knowledge/how-do-lifepo4-batte...
All lithium ion batteries, including LFP, degrade much faster under high SOC or high C (or even high DOD, extreme temp). In stationary energy storage systems under low SOC/low C-rates (eg, home powerwalls), LFP could last quite longer than other LIBs and this has been studied for years and widely accepted.
But, contrary to Jeff's Dahn's claim on Tesla's LFP battery pack, we don't really know much about LFP's true lifespan/performance in moving vehicles since they were deemed unsuitable for EV's with high SOC/high C-rates until China spiked them up a few years ago and they weren't studied as rigorously in that particular application/environment. Even as they are mostly limited to entry-level, low-range EVs, there are some early data indicating that LFP degradation in EVs is significant:
Tesla LFP Battery 10% RANGE LOSS PROBLEM? | Model 3 RWD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suw20wPrbL0
The brand new LFP batteries will degrade substantially quicker. There's not long-term retention data for LFP batteries on the market yet, but the trend tends to be substantially faster degradation. Trends show them stabilizing around that 10% degradation mark in about half the time as non-LFP batteries - around 50,000 miles instead of 100,000 miles."
they’ll be allowed run as long as the application is pending - regardless of any fixes or not, no? That’s very convenient!