ML17340B295
| ML17340B295 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Turkey Point  |
| Issue date: | 05/14/1981 |
| From: | Hayes S AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8106050338 | |
| Download: ML17340B295 (2) | |
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Dear Sirs:
May 14 1981
+o; 5P's a Florida Power
& Light customer I am concerned about what the proposed steam generator repair might add to my fuel bill.
I have read that it could add
$300, maybe more.
It is, I feel, an avoidable expense.
Does FPL have the right to assume that all costs wil'I automatically be passed on to the consumer?
If so, the company has no particular incentive to find the least-cost option.
Assuming for the moment that the steam generators should be replaced and I know that this conclusion is hotly being contested--it does not necessarily follow that the replacement fuel should be expensive oil.
Nuclear power plants supply base load electricity.
The best replacement fuel would therefore be the most inexpensive base load replacement--and that is conservation.
Oil may be an appropriate utility fuel when peaking plants need to be fired up to meet electric
- demand, but it is not appropriate to increase fuel oil consumption for base load generation when we are under an imperative to reduce oil imports.
't is profligate to burn more oil in order to uphold habits of energy waste.
The opportunities for efficiency improvements are tremendous and well documented, yet we do not seem to be taking advantage of the opportunities.
Why?
The answer comes from the fact that in the competition for capital, conservation has not fared well. It would seem that the consumer has been pre-empted from the decision-making process in many instances.
If Florida wer 8 Light charges me
$300 for being a customer, I will have.$ 300 less end on anything else.
RPhou's two and a half years old.
We did some. landscaping when we g(6 )hoed but we intend to do more.
Our plan includes a shade tree by
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m on the east.
I happen to think that
$300 invested in trees JUN,O,~ N8 sP ok'ould keep my house cooler for more years than would a
$300
,~cg,gges in a trouble-plagued nuclear power plant.
I think that Florida Power ight could spend large sums more profitably on load management Gp e
and conservation devices.
nk you for providing an opportunity for public input on the expensive proposal to repair Turkey Point.
stP Sincerely yours, iO 037 Shirley H yes (Mrs. Robert Hayes) 616 SW 14th St, Boca Ryton, F1.33432
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