GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill

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7. I disagree...

HVDC transmission lines and BESS address the intermittency of wind and solar, maybe not completely but better than waiting on new construction of nuclear reactors.

BTW, the US currently has 94 reactors at 54 plants providing 19% of our electricity. The only realistic hope of adding more reactors is at current operating plants as they did at Vogtle in GA. The reactors they were building in South Carolina failed because of the cost that rate payers didn't want to pay while in construction (also the projected demand wasn't happening). Building reactors at current plants deals with two issues:

1) The site has already been approved for nuclear reactors.

2) The operating reactors generate income to lessen the impact of construction costs.

Just to double nuclear output to 40% would require way more than we are going to build.

If we use the cost to build Vogtle #3 and #4 as a guide ($36.8 Billion over 15 years) we are talking about close to a $Trillion. I don't see it...