Duane Arnold Energy Center to Restart Under $1.9B Federal Loan
The restart would return 615 megawatts to the grid and is expected to create nearly 1,500 construction jobs, NextEra Energy said.
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to finance the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa.
- Surging electricity demand prompted the restart plan, which relies on a 25-year power purchase agreement with Google to buy energy from the 615-megawatt facility, previously closed in 2020 following a tropical storm.
- Restarting the facility is projected to create nearly 1,500 construction jobs and support more than 450 permanent operational positions; EDF Director Gregory Beard called it "exactly the kind of investment that will help restore American nuclear leadership."
- NextEra Energy must now secure licensing approvals from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission before operations resume; once operational, the plant will provide power to nearly 500,000 homes across Iowa and the Midwest.
- Federal efforts to reinvigorate the nation's nuclear industrial base include this financing, mirroring attempts to restart other mothballed centers like Holtec's 800 MW Palisades plant in Michigan, though no such facility has resumed operations yet.
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Energy Department loans $1.9B to restart Iowa nuclear plant - The Daily Bo Snerdley
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing announced a $1.9 billion loan Friday to NextEra Energy to fund the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear plant decommissioned in 2020 near Cedar Rapids, Iowa that would primarily power a Google data center. Iowa’s lone nuclear plant, the 615-megawatt Duane Arnold Energy Center, was scheduled for decommissioning in October 2020 due to chang…
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A third shuttered U.S. nuclear power plant is set to attempt a comeback with hefty support from the federal government. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy said it closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to help finance the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa, which shut down six…
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