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VY will be missed

By
John Dougherty
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 — Issue 204

RE: “As Vermont moves to green power, VY won't be missed” [Letters, May 8]:

The fallacy of the VY-won't-be-missed response is simply that it will be missed.

No amount of wind or solar power will replace Vermont Yankee. Wind and solar are intermittent power sources, while Vermont Yankee is a base-load plant. If one understands how the grid functions, it is obvious that these power sources are not interchangeable.

If VY shuts down, fossil fuel power sources will replace VY, not wind and solar. If VY shuts down, Vermont will further contribute to carbon emission, global warming, and hurt the local economy.

Let's take a reasonable approach and support renewable power sources and VY in a coordinated and logical way.

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