January 15, 2025

Nuclear

PJM
Maryland: The State Where ‘Transmission Has Come to Die’
Debating the impact of FERC's Rule 1920, Abe Silverman of Johns Hopkins told states to "codify, codify, codify" their energy policy goals and policies to ensure PJM has to take them into account in compliance.
Georgia Power Company
NARUC Offers Guidance to States on Advanced Nuclear
Advanced nuclear is gaining momentum as part of federal, state and corporate energy strategies, and a new report lays out many of the potential use cases.
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Sierra Club Urges Big Customers to Push for Clean Energy to Meet Rising Demand
Sierra Club released a report arguing that utilities can meet rising demand with clean resources, but to ensure that happens, the big customers driving much of that growth need to stick to their clean energy commitments.
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With Three Mile Island Restart, Debate Continues on Co-located Load in PJM
Data centers and other concentrated electric consumers increasingly seek to buy their power directly through nuclear generators in PJM.
DOE
Constellation to Reopen, Rename Three Mile Island Unit 1

Constellation Energy plans to reopen Three Mile Island Unit 1 under a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to sell about 835 MW to serve the company’s data centers.

Goldman-Sachs Renewables
Berkeley Lab: Solar-storage Hybrids Reshaping the Grid
Hybrid power plants, especially projects combining solar and storage, represent a growing amount of new generation online and in interconnection queues across the U.S., signaling a shift in how renewable power can be integrated into electric power markets, according to a new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
DOE
Potential Seen to Add up to 95 GW to US Nuclear Plants
The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that existing and recently retired nuclear power sites could host an additional 60 GW to 95 GW of new nuclear generation.
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NY Takes a Closer Look at Advanced Nuclear
Advanced nuclear technology, with all promise and all its baggage, is one of the ways New York is considering meeting its clean energy goals.
Holtec International
Holtec Confident on Late 2025 Restart of Palisades Nuclear Plant
No nuclear power plant in the nation has restarted operations after shutting down, and Holtec International is detailing how it expects to accomplish the feat at the mothballed Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in a little more than a year.
Constellation Energy
Constellation Raises Earnings Guidance amid Rising Demand
Constellation Energy turned in another solid quarterly report Aug. 6, boosting its earnings guidance for the year and offering a rosy picture for the future of its nuclear power fleet. 

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