Answer the questions as directed below.
Each response should be typewritten and double-spaced, approximately 1.5 pages long each. The exam is open note, open book, open source except for other students. Just identify any outside sources you use. Your answers should be well thought out, direct and well written. Please use charts, graphs and tables to cite data and trends.
Answer any 3 to 4 of the following questions:
1. You are providing a background brief to a new utility CEO who has little to no familiarity with power generation and mainly understands retail sales. Explain to him a brief history of nuclear power, the types of reactors, the public’s concerns and why and what the future of nuclear looks like.
2. WInd and solar are the two most current forms of renewable electricity. Provide a comparison — advantages and disadvantages, costs, future etc. How quickly do you think each will grow in Texas? The US?
3. The recent Inflation Reduction Act will potentially alter the landscape of renewal energy in the US? What are its key provisions that will be impacting renewable energy. What are the impacts long run and short run?
4. Explain the principal differences between the deregulated market structure for electricity and the regulated market structure for energy. Use a state for each example.
*Attached is my paper with heavy plagiarism but I believe contains some accurate information and some foundation for what the questions are looking for. Please fix/change, for better answer and no plagiarism*
