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After more than 45 years of powering New York with reliable, carbon-free electricity, the Indian Point Energy Center has shut down. Indian Point 2 and 3 have generated its last megawatts of electricity before prematurely ceasing operations.
At the moment climate change is recognized as an urgent problem and nuclear is viewed as an important part of the solution, a new study shows that reactors in PJM face shutdown down, right when they’re needed the most.
President Biden met with 40 world leaders and promised to get the United States back on the climate control track. . But real progress will require action, investment and policy, and nuclear energy will be key to making any climate solution work.
NEI applauds the New Jersey BPU’s unanimous decision to award zero-emissions credits to the three nuclear reactors at Salem-Hope Creek.
Financial support, both from the public and private sectors, is being redirected to back sustainable efforts, providing opportunities to rethink the role of nuclear energy in climate and impact investing.
Meeting ESG criteria is quickly becoming shorthand for whether a company’s business decisions are having a positive impact. According to Esther Whieldon at S&P Global what constitutes ESG will continue to evolve and that’s a very good thing.
On April 22-23, the U.S. will host 40 world leaders to discuss setting more ambitious carbon-reduction targets at the Leaders Summit on Climate. We asked three of our experts what would be the most encouraging developments from this international meeting.
The Biden administration is working to put the U.S. in position to address climate change. As the largest provider of around-the-clock carbon-free energy and with new innovations on the horizon, nuclear energy is the ideal partner to wind and solar in this endeavor.
What exactly does an energy grid that is both reliable and carbon-free look like in the U.S. and how do we get there? We asked experts from NEI and the Electric Power Research Institute who specialize in technology, innovation, policy and more to weigh in on this very question.
NEI President and Chief Executive Officer Maria Korsnick delivered the following remarks on the critical role nuclear energy will play in meeting the Biden administration’s aggressive climate goals at NEI’s annual State of the Nuclear Energy Industry event on March 23, 2021.