想要补贴核电站的州于4月15日拒绝听到请愿书质疑下级法院的裁决，即某些补贴不会干扰联邦监管机构，从而从美国最高法院获得了推动。挑战者说，现在的问题将留给联邦监管机构。

纽约和伊利诺伊州的两个下级法院以前维持了零排放补贴计划，他们向无法再与低成本化石发电竞争的核电站提供付款。

The subsidies do not interfere with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’ (FERC) authority to set power rates, the courts said.

但是电力行业贸易集团（EPSA）的电力供应协会（EPSA）认为，下级法院的决定是基于对2016年最高法院对电厂补贴的裁决的误解。在这种情况下，高等法院取消了马里兰州的补贴，称其有效调整了联邦法律为FERC保留的权力批发率。

法院在该裁决中还表示，有可能没有干扰FERC的权威。

A group of energy economists agreed with EPSA that the nuclear subsidies distort pricing and undermine markets because they give guaranteed income to existing uneconomic generating units.

“The focus now shifts back to FERC,” said John Shelk, EPSA’s president and CEO, noting the agency has also said such decisions are is in its hands now.

“Absent a comprehensive energy policy in this country, it’s understandable that states are providing subsidies,” Paul Patterson, an analyst with Glenrock Associates tells ENR. Subsidies makes sense until it is clear where markets and technology are going, he says.

放松管制的批发市场中的许多核电站都在挣扎。他们的高运营和维护成本通常会使他们的能力对低成本天然气和一些可再生能源的竞18luck.cub争力。

“We have a moral obligation to our fellow citizens to do everything we can to decrease carbon emissions,” Joseph Fiordaliso, president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) said April 18 when it awarded zero emissions subsidies to the state’s only nuclear plants, Salem and Hope Creek, even though they are economically viable.

Hope Creek的所有者兼塞勒姆Exelon的联合所有者公共服务企业集团表示，BPU投票的前一天将关闭工厂，而无需每年3亿美元的补贴。

“We are pleased with the decision to help support New Jersey’s primary supply of zero-carbon electricity,” PSEG said in a statement.

有担忧补贴将在expense of other forms of zero emission energy. “My biggest concern is whether the $300-million subsidy will come at the expense of [future investments] in the solar and wind industry,” Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club said in an interview.

In Pennsylvania, a zero emissions Senate bill introduced April 17 would add nuclear plants as zero carbon producers. It also would add more emission credits for renewable generation to quell opposition from environmentalists.

该法案将为该州的五个核电站创造约5.4亿美元的补贴，并避免关闭三英里岛，Exelon目前计划在9月关闭。根据PJM互连的报告，该州剩余的工厂是经济的。

俄亥俄州的共和党议员于4月12日提出了一项法案，以补贴第一台能源解决方案拥有的两家财务困扰的工厂。虽然补贴也将支付给至少50兆瓦的太阳能农场，但俄亥俄太阳能项目没有那么大。18luck官网风电场的资格最高可达50兆瓦，但立法要求在2014年通过增加挫折使风能开发陷入僵局。

In New York, Entergy Corp. agreed April 16 to sell the three nuclear units at Indian Point to a Holtec International subsidiary for decommissioning after they are shuttered. Unit 1 shut down in 1974. Entergy reached an agreement with the state of New York to shutter the remaining two units in 2020 and 2021.