ML20039E391
| ML20039E391 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 12/10/1981 |
| From: | Susan Cooper AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC |
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| NUDOCS 8201070228 | |
| Download: ML20039E391 (5) | |
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There has been one Raise last Fe:/'.:ar, adding 22$, 0111ed as: "~ nere r Cos t Adj'l of 1.5240 C K?tE, c.dded to our =onthly bill . F.E. recuested another raise in the summar--{I don't have dat36, which I protes ted to the Utility Commission.. The reques t was j for 203 raise, which was reduced to 105 allowed, --and ucler t'w . (News) admission tnat it was in support of the Limarick plants : Therefore my contention is that, I will ce cenalized by the 42te hike, unrelated to the source of sp :ncr yr.ia:-Gonowin o 2nd Peach 'ot"om, --and that Limerick is far in the future, rith varicus contineencies, unknown, --with ricing cost 3 etc - Purther
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o Rhyme end Rocoon for NUCLEt.3 Generation of Elsotric Enorgy; 1- It requires Federal subsidyyy(the public's taxes) to construct the Reactors, and continued survalance in operstion. 2- The Philadelphia Electric Co. , have had the unfortunate exper-1ence with the Three Mile Island Reactors, and are determined to " clean-up #3, which Pres. Reagan wants to provide $150.11111. ' to start the long-(four year) project, to cost more Millions! . , Also they want permission to re-start #1, admittedly: "To show
- l that we can run it safely"-- no reference to the need for the i juice, which we have lived without now for over two years!! .
l 3- P*E. obtained a permit to construct a nuke plant near Potts-l town " Limerick" a few years ago, expected to "go on line" '85. j Irenocally, they have admitted that the anticipated demand to l justify this energy is not materializing, and they want to sell the generated energy, before it is available! And now to i
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License, obviously to continue the construction of the plant! 4- P.E. Apolied for a Rate hike recently-for 20%--granted 10$/- i admittedly to help finance the Limerich construction / debit-- (Asking the customers to pay for something they bay never get.) This is only the'tip of the iceburg' with continuing raises, as _._.we_ bad an _" Energy Cost Adj" on our bills , (about 22%) this year / So. folkybowever you carve the arguments, you and I PAY for tthis foolishness, either in hiked service Bills, or TAXES to let
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Govern =ent spend it to keep the wasteful Nukes operating. i And, the life of Nukes is around 25 years--then what? bury them n or clean-up, like T3tI's with continination of the environment. ? Also that Nukes are rated at 7 70%, and general-actual is @ 50% ' just recently, report that only two in the state are in operation. P.E. is reported giving up a projected plant opcosite Peach 966 tom (. ,, -., l 5- All this adds up to the FACT that we are not DEPENDENT on Nuke.Ener-gy, since they are pricing out of. the increasing competitive market. Some folks will take IT so long, until asking:-is there an alter-l native?--YES is _the. answer, and. IS being quietly developed by the - -- , PEOPLE, Neighborhood groups, get together, in several Philadelphia - ( areas--forming co-operatives , for study, planning, working together
- l to let Old SOL heat their homes and water, cheat the profiteering _
Utilities . It's been under way two years on the quiet; -because: . it would hurt P.E .,--they can spend thousands $ on advertising and litigation, and the custo=sr pays for it--that's business // 6- This is not Science-fiction, FACTS backed up by a :mgazing which is bold tp seek and publicize such " benefits" for humuity, another is in the Boston area; see the New ROOTS magazine for Holiday,1981. Just a footnote: mentioned:- one man has ins talled a windmill,, (built from " recycled materials".. Another suuplies his familio's from TASTES turned into Vethane/ Alcohol- self-subsistance? Yours for affordable Energy, Sa=nel Cooper. Colora. Yd.(Cecil Co.)
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delphia needs help. Some 349,000 of its 1.8 million residents quahfy for welfare payments. Unemployment has increased in recent years as the city's antique oil-bellied plants have contracted, shut down, or relocated in the new industrial South. Stuck for the most part in dense but un-derinsulated housing, much o'it rented, and stuck too with thin skinned ware-houses and outmoded industrial facilities and commercial buildings, the city spent
. upwards of $52 million in 1978 on fuel, primarily heating oil and natural gas.
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. Granting funds-to the Sola? Planning l Project in 1979, the U.S. Department of Energy took the view that Philadelphia's r problems typified those of most cities of I
similst age, climate, and character. Estab-l Streetwise Energy Planning lishins soin enusy and conservatio='s l pracucality in this setting would mean l by Kathleen Courrier c ,om,thi,, to ye, yo,,, so,,oo, ,,a l Baltimore too. PHILADELPHIA To assess the solar conservation poten-tial of "hiladelphia's building stock, i Y ground zem in this project, the Solar lO Planning Project staff first combed the SI city's computer bued tax files. Counting buildings by type, it found that three fourths of the city's nearly half.mi!! ion
. residential buildings consisted of variants l of four basic types of structure. Most prevalent by F;r is the two story brick row house; nine out of ten houses in the city have flat roofs, and four out of five any urban energy timid._Yet, any program focussed on just have shared wa!!s. -
programs amount to . one technical or economic problem runs This and similar information supplied little more than a the risk of aggravating or giving rise to by the City Planning Commission was short lived effort by another. Because urban economics are fed in the spring of 1979 into a computer a single administra. mtegrated systems, any attempt to cor- program developed by the Delaware Val-tive agency to protect or relieve a single rect their failings or fme tune them had Iey Regional Planning Commission to class of clients from a single technical best be too. In Philadelphia, one is. determine tract by tract and type by type problem. A cluster of dilapidated houses There, a far-reaching planning efTort how many Philadelphia residences could might get weatherized or downtown two yezn in motios-the Philadelphia make economical use of solar sun spaces, businesses may receive energy audits at Solar Planning Project-holds out the heat retentive (or Trombe) walls, and e!e-the city's czpense or a conspicuous public qualified promise of helping the city nego- ven othei solar and conservation appli-building might get retrofitted to demon. tiate an economic equilibrium based cations. '
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i strate solar energy's practicality. partly on the careful application of con- The information culled from the tax A few cities-most notably, Seattle, servation techniques and solar technolo- files (including that on building height, Los Angeles, and St. Paae-have improved ogies. Under its banner. ' university re- posit on in the row, and insulation) en-upon this piecemeal approach, taking and searchers, government officials, neigh- abled solar engineers first to calculate the publicizing many energy measures simul, borhood groups, local architects, and theoretical' heat loads' for each housing other design professionals are collab-
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taneously. But most big cities have backed prototype and [tlien to 'deiermine the ! oft from strong commitments to energy oratively gauging the city's solar and en- applicability, costs, and energy savings programs' based on renewable energy. ergy-conservation potential and trying out associated with each sols; or conservation Faced with cuts in federal aid, the eco. s me of the measures the city would have optiort under study. In the opinion of nomic ills that beset old northern indus- to take to fulfillit. Charles Burnette, chief architect and pro-trial centers, an unfamiliar energy tech- ject director, this analytical base is nology, and uncertainty concerning the Big, Old, Cold, and Poor .. uniquely workable at the neighborhood efTects of new energy programs on em- Like many old northeastern and mid- level and potentially applicable anywhere ployment, city officials are understandably western manufacturing cities, Phila- census data is available."
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Mfd MTM} the advantages of organizing cooperatives borhood organizations, ' and attractive Cesid ;ntial Options financing arrangements for consumers. to purchase solar equipment and weather-Ordinary insulation is one energy option izing materials. Enthusiastic response in Cedar Park has the Solar Planm.ng Pro >.ect assessed. Pro- Here, the dominoes stopped falling. prompted the city government's imtial ject engineers Don Prowler and John Residents of case-study: ne.ighborhoods involvement to the Solar Planning Pro-Legerton determmed that a typical two- showed notinterest in banding together to ject,as well as .m the formation of a weath-story brick rowhouse .m Philadelphia has make bulk energy-equipment purchases. erization co op. - a baseline energy load of roughly 15.5 Only 18 people attended the town meet-
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- mg co sponsored .in October of 1979 by day per square foot if. .it is poorly .msu- p aHiliates, Consumer Action If Philadelphians in numbers do re-lated. But add ceihng and wall insulation, in the Northeast (CANE) and Grasy spond to new information and marketing storm windows, and strategic weather- roots Alliance for a Solar Pennsylvania initiatives, sales of solar and conservation stripping, and the load falls to 6.4 Bru. (GRASP). A month later no requests for equipment will alter the metropolitan (Other additions can reduce the load fur- A Neighborhood Buyer's Guide to Solar economy. To find out exactly how, com-ther.) These same kinds of figures- Energy had been received, and a telephone puter analysts at the Regional Science meluding costs--were also developed for Researc't Institute (RSRI) plied a sophisti-survey conducted in December turned up various other combinations of solar and c2ted regional input-output model, cal-only six prospective solar and conser-conservatiort measures in each of the culating the number and types of jobs the varion buyers. Seven hundred hay dollars housing prototypes the Pro,ectj tdentified. worth of weatherization materials pur. manufacture, installation, and use of Such calculations support at least a 10,000 units of each energy option under chased with church-donated funds for few generalizations. One is that the resale began to collect dust. Philadelphia study would create at given investment Trombe wall ts the most cost-efTective financial institutions approached during levels. In the case of solar applications, solar applicadon for most of Philadel- roughly 1,500 jobs would be generated for this time proved about as cool to solar phia s ubiquitous two-story rowhouses. energ'y and conservation as consumers every 10,000 units insta!!ed, and putting An:ther ts that while solar equipment is in insulation creates even more employ-were -
technically efTective in all the neighbor- p , g the ' Solar ment per dollar invested. RSRI also found hoods studied, conservation measures Planning Project was not undone by con. that the job robbing efTects within the tend to have a shorter payback period. fossil fuels Industry of solarization and sumer apathy. But it did take stock, weatherization would be minor compared reviewing and refining its approach. Tcsting Home Truths - A new efrort in West Philadelphia's to the economy-wide benefits of energy l Cedar Park neighborhood included well. savings. l The value, accuracy, and motivating l
' power of the information ~ collected on timed ' consumer-education programs,
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! _ Philadelphia's residential energy use have ity-developine~nt issuestEough neigh'- ~ Solar Planiling activities range from en- - l been put to the test in several neighbor-hoods. Results have been mized and > w&.e a mw , A ! telling. m. W+ 'y -- I h"=NpMISSMN E MOENNYNER
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4 needs. ginal Buyer's Gulds (which was for owners gineering to scholarship. Project arms have developed fine-gauged reference As part ofits commercial sector work, of two-story brick rowhouses) are being data on Philadelphia's microchmste, the Project drew up a IIst of Philadelphia's . developed on the other ' housing proto. surveyed all the solar financing mecha- twenty two most energy-ineflicient build- types the Project identified. With funds nisms in use around the country, and ad- ings. It subsequently won a Department af from the Pennsylvania Department of-dressed the broad question of utility in- Energy grant to retrofit a cathedral-sized Community Afffrs, the Philadelphia
-automobile maintenance facility owned Allied Act'on Council (the city weather-volvement in solarization and weatheri.
zation campaigns. At the same time, by the city. Coupled with roofinsulation . ization agency), and the OfTice of Housing the Project's technical staff and design and other conservation measures, the add- and Community Development, GRASP, consultants have worked up prototypical on " window furnace" should top 60.per-' the. Institute for Civil Values, and the solar and conservation equipment spe- cent ofTthe building's heating load. - West Philadelphia Development Cor-
-r -- -r poration'are holding workshops on' coop-cifically for use in Philadelphia's cHmmte, buildings, and economy.
Spin-offs and Phase Changes ' erative buying. Other pieces of the action include contracts to specify a solar system l ' One such device-a suncatcher that Project' activities have changed shape , in response to' experience, moving from a that the West Philadelphia Gas Works looks like a skylight-promises not only
. near-exclusive emphasis on data-gathering will finance and install for its customers I appreciable energy savings but also new .
low-investa:ent business opportunities. ~and' data analysis to a broader focus on and to write rehab specifications for practical design work; public demoastra. the houses in~ the West Philadelphia l Another looks to save Philadelphia tax- ' . payers a chunk ofmoney. tion projects, 'and'~neighborhood organ- Development, Corporation's territory. Of The flat.:oof aperture system developed izing. The point isn't that research didft particular promise. is the West Phila-pay off: so many new activities would not delphia Development Corporation's ar-by So!'ar Planning Project stafT on the be starting if the groundwork had not been tempt to match neighborhood production basis of its computerized housing survey could well find area-wide application. laid so meticulously. 'Indeed, the shift ' capability to solar and conservation manu-Tested on the Southwest Community in emphasis signals success. Few, if any, facturing opportunities. Enrichment Center, this low-cost rooftop large scale feasibility studies have evolved into large-scale action programs involving Prospects system could be used on 90 percent of
. Philadelphia's two-stor; row houses and both resource management and enterprise It is too early to appraise the Phila-l manufactured locally. (Starting this fall, development. delphia Solar Planning Project's transition l from research to action, too early to gauge it will be produced and installed by Wo- Indicative of this transformation is a l
men in Solar Carpentry and at least one sampling of some of the current inter- the Project's impact on Philadelphia's l other solar business.) It admits welcome related activities taking place under the troubled economy. But the Project has ) daylight into the host structure's upper joint auspices ~ of the, Solar Phning satisfied its sponsors, and its potential l floor, and its designers claim it can meet Project, GRASP, and the Institut: for for becoming selfsustaining increases l a fourth of a row house's annual heating Civic Values (ICU). Sequels to the ori- steadily as more basumers, community ' groups, and energy providers participate, w%pmm ~'r gj w3.msewscy.nem.sg;.cs N v ' W N W y. % *4-f. g p -am;MG h Wzr.:0.w; yN.4P-s _., u Whether the Solar Plaaning Project con-tinues to expand and diversify depends F$ $ NM N te wm
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