The CEO of NextEra Energy, which has entered a partnership with GE Vernova, said natural gas, renewables and nuclear energy will be needed to meet rising power demand.
Constellation Energy will acquire Calpine Corp. in a $26.6 billion deal, including debt, that will give the pure-play nuclear company the largest natural gas power generation fleet.
Aalo Atomics intends to build an experimental microreactor facility at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Nuclear power is awesome. Nuclear power is also hard—and a long way off from displacing natural gas as the primary source for the electricity the U.S. will desperately need.
The CEO of NextEra Energy, which has entered a partnership with GE Vernova, said natural gas, renewables and nuclear energy will be needed to meet rising power demand.
Constellation Energy will acquire Calpine Corp. in a $26.6 billion deal, including debt, that will give the pure-play nuclear company the largest natural gas power generation fleet.
Aalo Atomics intends to build an experimental microreactor facility at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Nuclear power is awesome. Nuclear power is also hard—and a long way off from displacing natural gas as the primary source for the electricity the U.S. will desperately need.
The U.S. needs approximately 400,000 new engineers each year moving forward but is currently only able to fill about one-third of the engineering positions available through at least 2030.
Among the energy executives looking for more electrons, Warren Buffett’s own energy provider in Omaha, Nebraska, says “we have to stop this fighting.”
Oklo Inc. is working to deliver up to 750 megawatts from site-based fission units, with the first deployment anticipated in 2027.
With Wall Street and Congress on board, projects may be on the verge of charging forward.
Nuclear has a capacity factor of 92.5%, the highest of any source of electricity, not to mention near-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Higher demand for oil, gas and coal will delay peak emissions past 2030 and push the world beyond Wood Mackenzie’s base transition case and closer to a 3 C pathway, the consultancy said in a new report.