The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant may be restarted so its electricity can be sold to Microsoft to power data centers. “We want Microsoft to buy their electricity from zero-carbon energy sources instead of from coal plants, so it is in the interest of all of us that this nuclear power plant gets reopened,” states John Parsons (MIT Sloan).

October 11, 2024 In the media Washington Post

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Assessment of NYISO electricity market revenue models for investments in battery storage

Competitive Profiles for Thermal Long Duration Energy Storage

Electric Power-H2-CO₂ infrastructure interactions in a deeply decarbonized energy system

Electricity capacity market prices

Integrated marine platform for hydrogen and ammonia production

Nuclear energy value beyond economics

Options for scope 2 emissions accounting – own emissions, offsets and impact accounting

Quantifying cost, schedule & licensing hurdles of small modular reactors for industrial settings

Stored energy reserve market for grid resource adequacy

The competitive landscape for distributed nuclear cogeneration

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