COVERT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Members of the Michigan House and Senate, including State Senator Sean McCann of Kalamazoo, have authored a letter of support for the reopening of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Van Buren County.
Plant owner Holtec is currently in the process of seeking funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office to support the repowering, which also requires a financial commitment by the State of Michigan. The letter signers are members of the legislature’s recently formed bipartisan nuclear caucus.
McCann is the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Environment Committee.
In their letter to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the legislators say, “The successful re-powering of Palisades would immediately provide safe, carbon-free, and reliable energy to a grid that desperately needs more baseload generation,” and citing Palisades’s importance as an employer and taxpayer to the state economy and local community.
