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NARUC Releases Report Nuclear Generation in Utility Resource Planning

On November 8, 2023, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) released a new report titled “Nuclear Generation in Long-Term Utility Resource Planning”.


NARUC’s Press Release states in part:


In this report, the authors identify three overarching trends from their analyses of 17 utility IRP filings submitted between August 2019 and March 2023. Here is a summary of those trends:


1. The majority of regulated utilities are aware of advanced nuclear technologies. ****

2. Several utilities included in NARUC’s review have explicitly included advanced nuclear in their IRPs. ****

3. Most utilities propose keeping existing nuclear resources online to maintain reliability and progress toward decarbonization goals…. ****



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