NRDC guy:
“No California utility or independent power producer has had the slightest interest in deploying more of a technology with that level of cost and operational inflexibility,” he said in an email. “This almost certainly won't change.”
Everything that I’ve seen demonstrates that Investor Owned Utilities absolutely love projects with high capital expenditures, because the CPUC lets them pass costs through to ratepayers with guaranteed profit margins.
Ratepayers continue to pay for San Onofre, which is slowly being disassembled after having been turned off over a decade ago due to engineering incompetence. There are no plans to move the 1400 tons of nuclear fuel waste that is stored on site - the unchanged, politically unsolvable, spent fuel problem being the original reason for California’s nuclear generation ban.