Also remember all of the nuclear plants bleed cash and now require direct subsidy to operate. New York has lots of challenges ahead as the environmentalists hate gas and the NIMBY types and farmers hate solar/wind.
Money isn't green paper rectangles, it is a store of value. It represents tradeoffs. It represents man-hours, other investments into our future that we could make, etc.
Pretending money isn't that important is just an ignorant thing to do.
Gas is way cheaper to operate and nuclear plants cannot compete profitably.
I'm too lazy to Google right now, but IIRC, NY committed something like $9B over 12 years to keep various plants open. New Jersey and Illinois either are doing or will be doing the same thing.
