Environmental, Civic Groups Join Together in Support of Diablo Canyon
MAY 9, 2026 – A coalition of environmental, civic, business, and other groups launched today with the goal of convincing legislators to support continued operation of Diablo Canyon (Nuclear) Power Plant, the source of 9% of California’s electricity and 20% of its clean electricity.
The plant, originally scheduled to close in 2025, was granted an extension to 2030 when government officials determined it was necessary to maintain the stability of California’s grid.
Fission Transition is working to:
• Extend to nuclear plant owners the same economic incentives offered to wind and solar farms for their clean power.
• Create a level playing field for clean energy by ending CAISO’s wholesale market trading rule which assigns to wind and solar resources a preferential place in its “loading order”.
• Eliminate the awarding of tradeable Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), which can be sold to fossil fuel generators to evade responsibility for the CO2 impacts of their energy.
• Promote funding for Gen-4 (fourth generation) reactor development in California to help the state regain its lead in clean energy.
• Inform legislators and the public of the many benefits of nuclear energy: its safety, its cost-competitiveness, and small land-use and wildlife impacts.
• Work with local communities with municipal power (Sacramento, Alameda, Burbank, Glendale, others) to investigate the possibilities of de-carbonizing with small-modular or microreactors.
WATCH: CA Gov. Gavin Newsom minces no words when asked what could have happened during a record 2022 heat wave if Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant had not been online
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Though advocates claim offshore wind farms are capable of replacing the carbon-free, reliable power provided by nuclear plants, practical experience shows fossil fuel plants must step in to supplement their output, or even substitute for them, during periods of extended calm.
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