'The people of Zamboanga City and nearby areas can look forward to a state-of-the-art baseload power plant right here in the city to provide safe, reliable and affordable electricity,' he said.
With Zamboanga's power supply now at a wobbly state, it has been noted that this propounded capacity addition "will play a crucial role in providing baseload power to Zamboanga City and stabilizing power supply in the Zamboanga peninsula."
Aside from threatening thousands of highly skilled jobs, reducing the proportion of baseload power supplied by nuclear would also have a negative impact on air quality, climate and human health.
Espinosa said the electricity distribution giant was 'joining the inexorable shift to renewable energy and the adoption of sustainable practices' even as it continued to push for 'clean coal' for its array of baseload power plants.
As energy economist Jonathan Lesser argued in these pages ("The High Cost of LowValue Wind Power," Spring 2013), those lower prices reduce the returns to traditional baseload coal and nuclear generation.
It is likely that with the share of variable renewable energy increasing substantially, nuclear generation will need to be flexible beyond its traditional baseload operation mode.
Again, regardless of what some keep telling you, we have baseload gas demand markets that are continually growing: gas for electricity, gas for industrial use, gas for LNG export to the world, gas for piped export to Mexico and Canada.
However Ms Whitmill says the reliable, baseload capacity provided by the Hinkley and other UK nuclear projects is essential for the UK's energy security.
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