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In June 2021, TerraPower and PacifiCorp (a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy) announced plans to build a joint Natrium reactor. [29] Four cities in Wyoming affected by closure of fossil-fuel power plants were under consideration for the demonstration reactor: Gillette, Kemmerer, Glenrock and Rock Springs, Wyoming. [30]
TerraPower selected Kemmerer, Wyoming as the site for a 345 MWe reactor using a molten salt energy storage system. The reactor can temporarily boost output to 500 MWe, enabling the plant to integrate with renewable resources. [9] In June 2024 the site broke ground, beginning preparation for the as-yet unapproved reactor. [10]
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, sorted by type and name. In 2021, Wyoming had a total summer capacity of 10,096 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 46,017 GWh in 2022. [ 2 ]
In 2020, TerraPower won a $2 billion grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help realize the vision of the Natrium plant. The rest of the funds, Levesque said, will be sourced from private ...
Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower will build its Natrium plant in Kemmerer, a southwestern Wyoming city of 2,600 where the coal-fired Naughton power plant operated by PacifiCorp subsidiary ...
In June, a new plant broke ground near Kemmerer with the hope of revitalizing the industry through new innovations. On Friday, Chris Levesque, the president and CEO of TerraPower, the company ...
Gates co-founded TerraPower in 2008 as a way for the private sector to propel advanced nuclear energy forward to provide safe, abundant, carbon-free energy. The company's 345-megawatt reactor could generate up to 500 megawatts at its peak, enough for up to 400,000 homes. TerraPower said its first few reactors will focus on supplying electricity.
In 2021 Terrapower instead announced that its first Natrium reactor would be built in Wyoming. [24] In 2023 X-energy announced continued development of up to 12 reactors at the Hanford site. [ 25 ] In October 2024 Amazon has signed an agreement to pay for the initial feasibility phase to further develop the X-energy modular reactors near this site.