🧵 THREAD: LPO & U.S. Nuclear — Vogtle, Palisades, Liftoff Reports, and Reality-Based Finance LPO was designed in 2005 to help commercialize nuclear power. It was at the center of Vogtle, Palisades restart, and the writing of the Nuclear Liftoff Reports
Culture change is hard. Utilities like @DukeEnergy would rather raise rates 15% on their ratepayers because they feel forced to pay “$3k/kW” for gas instead of adding 7,200 MWs of batteries paid for by data centers at existing solar sites...
I surveyed over 100 people with decision making authority at @NARUC on whether a 100% off-grid natural gas anchored solutiosn could provide 99% uptime (not even 99.9999%). What percent of those experts were confident it was possible?