AI and Nuclear Power on the Susquehanna River: More Questions than Answers

AI and Nuclear Power on the Susquehanna River:
More Questions than Answers.

Eric Epstein,
February 1, 2025

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Governor Josh Shapiro Reaches Agreement with PJM to Prevent Unnecessary Price Hikes and Save Consumers Over $21 Billion on Utility Bills; Positive Impact for TMI restart.

https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2025-press-releases/gov-shapiro-agreement-pjm-prevent-price-hikes-save-consumers-ove.html

Governor Josh Shapiro Reaches Agreement with PJM to Prevent Unnecessary Price Hikes and Save Consumers Over $21 Billion on Utility Bills

In December, Governor Shapiro filed a lawsuit with federal energy regulators to prevent energy price hikes on 65 million consumers, including 13 million Pennsylvanians.
 
Governor Shapiro’s work to find a pathway to resolving this lawsuit with PJM has averted runaway prices and will save Pennsylvanians money on their electricity bills.

January 28, 2025

Harrisburg, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro announced he has reached an agreement with PJM Interconnection on a plan to resolve his recent lawsuit and to save consumers over $21 billion over the next two years. In December, Governor Shapiro filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)(opens in a new tab) against PJM Interconnection, criticizing flaws in PJM’s capacity auction design that threatened to impose significant new price increases. The agreement will avoid historic price hikes on consumers across all 13 states PJM serves, including Pennsylvania.

Left unaddressed, PJM’s next capacity auction scheduled for July 2025 would have resulted in billions in unnecessary energy costs for 65 million people across the region. The Governor worked with PJM to significantly lower the capacity auction price cap – from over $500/Megawatt-Day to $325/MW-Day – averting a runaway auction price that would have unnecessarily increased energy bills.

The Commonwealth is a leading producer of energy and the nation’s largest exporter of electricity – nearly a century ago, Pennsylvania helped to found PJM, and today still serves as a generation backbone for the region. At the same time it has led this fight against unnecessary price increases on consumers, the Shapiro Administration is committed to meeting the need for new generation by getting more power projects built in Pennsylvania as part of an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy to create jobs, reduce emissions, and ensure safe, reliable, affordable power for Pennsylvanians for the long term.

“When PJM’s next auction was set to result in historic price hikes, I filed a lawsuit to stop this price hike on consumers and defend Pennsylvanians,” said Governor Shapiro. “PJM did the right thing by listening to my concerns and coming to the table to find a path forward that will save Pennsylvanians billions of dollars on their electricity bills. My Administration will continue to work to ensure safe, reliable, and affordable power for Pennsylvanians for the long term.” 

PJM operates a capacity market, which means that operators are paid to commit to providing energy in the future. Over the last several years, demand for energy has risen rapidly but PJM has been slow to allow new power sources onto its grid – and as a result, PJM capacity prices have skyrocketed. PJM’s 2025/26 capacity auction, held in July 2024, resulted in costs of $14.7 billion – an over 800 percent increase from the prior year. 

The Governor pushed PJM to reduce their price cap, and a diverse coalition came together support the Governor’s message, including four governors(opens in a new tab), energy and consumer advocates, and the Organization of PJM States (OPSI). The Shapiro Administration’s energy leadership promises to save the PJM region over $21 billion on utility bills in the next two years.

PJM and the Shapiro Administration have agreed to a path forward for the complaint, subject to consultation with PJM members and the PJM Board of Managers. In order to avoid further delays to the auction schedule, PJM will soon seek a FERC order by proposing a cap and floor mechanism through an FPA section 205 filing with the FERC.

This resolution follows over a year of engagement with PJM. Governor Shapiro continues to repeatedly(opens in a new tab) press for long-term solutions that address increasing costs, urging PJM to: 

• Reopen their closed interconnection queue(opens in a new tab) to get new projects online, like the restart of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania; 

• Rely on member states to help determine which projects are ready(opens in a new tab) and to speed up project approvals like the Governor has done in Pennsylvania; 

• Implement new best practices established by FERC(opens in a new tab) in order to be better prepared in extreme weather scenarios and ensure affordable, reliable power year-round; and 

• Reform the capacity market(opens in a new tab) to more accurately reflect real world conditions, ensuring grid reliability while saving consumers money on their utility bills.

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How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/how-deepseeks-efficient-ai-could-stall-the-nuclear-renaissance/

How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance

Tim De Chant

11:12 AM PST · January 27, 2025

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stunned the world with the release of its R1 model, which appears to perform nearly as well as leading models from Google and OpenAI, despite the company’s claim that it used a relatively modest number of GPUs to train it.

DeepSeek’s relative efficiency has experts and investors questioning whether AI really needs the massive hardware outlays everyone had been predicting. And that could change data center demand — and the energy needed to power them.

The company claims it ran 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs for two months to train a slightly older model, a fraction of the compute that OpenAI is rumored to use. 

Few companies are as exposed as Nvidia, the share price of which was down 16% at the time of publishing. Perhaps even more vulnerable are the startups and power producers that are betting big on new nuclear and natural gas capacity. 

Nuclear power, in particular, has been on the cusp of a renaissance for years, driven by advances in fuel and reactor designs that promise to make a new generation of power plants safer and cheaper to build and operate. Until now, there was little reason to blaze ahead. Nuclear is still expensive relative to wind, solar, and natural gas. Plus, next-generation nuclear has yet to be tested at commercial scale.

The surge in power demand from AI changed the equation. With data centers predicted to consume as much as 12% of all electricity in the U.S. — more than triple their share in 2023 — and forecasts of underpowered AI data centers by 2027, tech companies have been racing to secure new supplies, and throwing billions of dollars at the problem. Google has pledged to buy 500 megawatts of capacity from nuclear startup Kairos, Amazon led a $500 million investment in another nuclear startup, X-Energy, and Microsoft is working with Constellation Energy on a $1.6 billion renovation of a reactor at Three Mile Island.

But what if the problem has been overblown? 

There is no hard and fast rule suggesting that the only way to improve AI performance is to use more compute. For a while, that tactic worked well, but more recently, more compute hasn’t yielded the same results. AI researchers have been casting about for solutions, and it’s possible that DeepSeek found one for its R1 model.

Not everyone is convinced, of course.

“While DeepSeek’s achievement could be groundbreaking, we question the notion that its feats were done without the use of advanced GPUs,” Citigroup analyst Atif Malik wrote.

Still, history suggests that even if DeepSeek is hiding something, someone else will probably find a way to make AI cheaper and more efficient. After all, it’s easier and potentially faster to task some PhDs with developing better models than it is to build new power plants. 

The current wave of new reactors aren’t scheduled to come online until 2030, and new natural gas power plants won’t be available until the end of the decade at the soonest. In that context, tech companies’ power investments appear to be hedges in case their software bets don’t pan out. 

If they do, expect tech companies to scale back their power ambitions. When given the choice between spending billions on physical assets or software, tech companies almost always chose the latter.

Where will that leave nuclear startups and energy companies? It depends. Some might be able to produce power at a low enough cost that it won’t matter if AI’s power needs ebb. The world is electrifying, and even before the AI bubble started inflating, demand for electricity was expected to grow.

But absent demand from AI, those cost pressures are probably going to increase. Wind, solar, and batteries are cheap and getting cheaper, and they’re inherently modular and mass-produced. Developers can roll out new renewable plants in phases, delivering electricity (and revenue) before the entire project is complete while offering some control over their future in the face of uncertain demand. The same can’t be said of a nuclear reactor or a gas turbine. Tech companies know this, which is why they’ve been quietly investing in renewables to power their data centers.

Few people predicted the current AI boom, and it’s unlikely that anyone knows how the next five years will play out. As a result, the safer bets in energy will probably flow to proven technologies that can be rapidly deployed and scaled according to a rapidly evolving market. Today, renewables fit that bill. 

S&P 500 Leaders Respond As DeepSeek Shakes Up AI Goldrush | Investor's Business Daily

S&P 500 nuclear power giants Constellation Energy (CEG) and Vistra (VST) plummeted early Monday as China's private DeepSeek startup shook the markets. DeepSeek released a powerful artificial intelligence program that it claims cost just $5.6 million to build, marking a possible paradigm shift from the massive levels of investment by technology industry giants in energy and AI infrastructure.

Nuclear stocks swooned Monday during market action, marking a reverse of fortunes compared to last week. The sector had broadly advanced after President Donald Trump's announced Tuesday afternoon that Sam Altman's OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle (ORCL) are planning a joint venture called Stargate, to build data centers and other AI infrastructure in the U.S., with investments of up to $500 billion.

https://www.investors.com/news/sp-500-nuclear-leaders-respond-to-deepseek-ai-goldrush/

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NextEra files Duane Arnold restart request with NRC

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Renewables Leader NextEra Expanding Gas, Nuclear for AI Boom

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(Bloomberg) -- NextEra Energy Inc., one of the world’s biggest suppliers of wind and solar power, is moving to expand its natural gas and nuclear generation in a bid to meet the surging demand for electricity sparked by artificial intelligence.

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The company has partnered with gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova Inc. to build power generation for data centers and factories, Chief Executive Officer John Ketchum said on an earnings call Friday. NextEra has also taken the first step to restarting its shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa.

US power consumption is rising, driven by data centers and AI, along with manufacturing and the increasing electrification of the economy. That’s spurred demand for new gas plants and reawakened interest in nuclear energy. The electricity boom has sparked new ideas and deals that would once have been unthinkable.

“We’re already having a lot of success with renewables, but let’s capitalize on the need for capacity and gas generation,” Ketchum said in an interview. By partnering with GE Vernova, “we can find multi-gigawatt solutions for these customers, not just gas but combined with renewable solutions,” he said.

Ketchum also said that strategy will be helped by the Trump administration’s strong support for gas power.

NextEra shares gained as much as 5.8% in New York. The company also owns Florida Power & Light, one of the largest US utilities.

“It can’t be underestimated how much this industry has changed in a very short amount of time, really the last 15 months to 18 months,” Rebecca Kujawa, head of subsidiary NextEra Energy Resources, said on the call. “We’ve seen a lot of increase in demand for natural gas.”

GE Vernova has said data centers favor gas over intermittent renewable sources like wind because the facilities require power around the clock. Scott Strazik, GE Vernova’s CEO, said this week that orders for gas turbines more than doubled to 20 gigawatts last year and he expects 2025 to be even stronger.

NextEra has asked US regulators for a licensing change for the Duane Arnold nuclear plant, a first step toward potentially restarting the Iowa facility.

NextEra aims to get the reactor up and running again as early as the end of 2028, it said Friday in an earnings release. “This is much faster than we and investors we speak to expect,” Jefferies LLC analysts led by Julien Dumoulin-Smith said in a note.

The request was filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday, according to a company representative. NextEra had previously said it was interested in reviving the plant.

NextEra is not the only company pursuing efforts to revive reactors. South Carolina utility Santee Cooper said Wednesday it’s seeking bids to restart construction of two reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station. And in September, NextEra rival Constellation Energy Corp. announced plans to restart a reactor at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania to supply Microsoft Corp.

The 600-megawatt Duane Arnold plant closed in 2020 after its biggest customer decided to exit its power-purchase agreement. The facility was also damaged in a windstorm that same year, prompting the company to close the plant two months earlier than planned.

NextEra has said Duane Arnold, which went into service in 1974, uses less-complex technology that may make it easier to revive than newer nuclear plants. But Jefferies & Co. analyst Julian Dumoulin-Smith has said bringing the facility back into service would be costly and there’s no guarantee the economics would be justified.

(Updates with comment from CEO in fourth paragraph, comment from analyst in 10th paragraph.)

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Trump's attack on Biden's IRA spending raises could complicate Palisades restart effort | The Blade

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Trump's attack on Biden's IRA spending raises could complicate Palisades restart effort

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The Blade

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Jan 23, 2025

President Trump’s freeze on Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act spending has, if nothing else, caused some confusion about the future of the historic Palisades nuclear plant restart effort and its ability to remain on the schedule outlined by its owner, Holtec International.

The cornerstone of the unprecedented project is a $1.52 billion loan agreement the U.S. Department of Energy finalized in September with Holtec.

The DOE money for that loan is coming from the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, distributions from which Trump has frozen through an executive order. He also has ordered unspent money to be returned.

The IRA has been called America’s largest single investment in fighting climate change. Trump opposes it because, as a matter of policy, he doesn’t want to spend money on climate change projects.

“I definitely think it's causing confusion, without knowing exactly how the deal is structured,” said Edwin Lyman, director of Nuclear Power Safety for the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Scientists. “I think it depends on the project. At the minimum, it's confusing.” 

For now, oil and natural gas drilling “will be king” under Trump, Mr. Lyman said.

The Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry’s chief lobbyist group on Capitol Hill, has in recent years rebranded the nuclear industry as a leading strategy for reducing climate-altering carbon dioxide emissions.

“The nuclear industry has been very successful in converting Democrats,” Mr. Lyman said. “That could backfire.”

But Nick Culp, Holtec Palisades senior manager of government affairs and communications, told The Blade he’s confident the project will remain on schedule and the DOE loan will be unharmed because of Trump’s general support of nuclear power as an energy source.

“We're very confident, based on the very strong support we're hearing from the President and his nominees,” Mr. Culp said. “We feel very confident the support will be there and there will be a place in which Palisades fits with America's energy agenda.”

Holtec, which has never operated a nuclear plant, is trying to make Palisades the first nuclear plant in American history to go back online after it has been mothballed and put into its decommissioning phase.

The plant ceased operations in May of 2022 when its previous owner, Entergy, said it was doing so permanently for economic reasons.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been a strong supporter of the potential restart, calling the project an important part of her MI Healthy Climate Plan, which sets deadlines for the state to reduce its carbon emissions.

“We are reviewing. Thank you,” was the only statement received by The Blade from Ms. Whitmer’s office when asked for a comment about Trump’s executive order.

An online request for comment was submitted to White House communications, which acknowledged receipt but gave no immediate response.

“It’s certainly going to be disruptive,” Alan Blind, a retired nuclear power executive who once spent nearly seven years as the Palisades engineering director, said of Trump’s executive order.

While it’s possible the contract in place with the DOE will hold, even if all $1.52 billion hasn’t been distributed yet, that wouldn’t necessarily be the case if Holtec is found to be in violation of it.

He said there are multiple issues, one of the largest being the condition of the Palisades steam generator tubes.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission verified at a recent meeting that steam generator tubes went two years before they were laid up in a wet chemical process that was supposed to be done immediately after shutdown if the goal was to preserve them for additional usage. That protocol is an industry standard supported by California-based EPRI, a consulting group the nuclear industry often relies upon.

Mr. Culp said the extent of damage of steam generator tubes was simply part of the inspection process. He did not respond when asked why it took so long to store them in the wet chemical process.

Kevin Kamps, an activist with Maryland-based Beyond Nuclear who grew up near the plant, said that safety assurances are “very dubious, as [the] NRC is completely captured by the industry it is supposed to regulate.”

The NRC has said multiple times, including recently, that it will not authorize restart unless it is convinced it is safe to do so.

The government regulator also reminded Holtec and its contractors during a public meeting at the NRCs national headquarters in Rockville, Md., last week that it is not beholden to the company’s timetable.

Mr. Culp told The Blade that Holtec is still eyeing restart for the fourth quarter of this year, despite issues raised by Trump’s executive order.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission - News Release

No: 25-004 January 22, 2025

CONTACT: Scott Burnell, 301-415-8200

NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to Hold Oral Argument on Palisades Restart License Amendment Requests

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will conduct an oral argument Feb. 12 on adjudicatory hearing petitions concerning Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC’s, and Holtec Palisades, LLC’s, license amendment requests and an exemption request related to a potential restart of the Palisades Nuclear Plant. Palisades is located in South Haven, Michigan.

 

The oral argument will begin at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. It will allow the board to ask questions regarding challenges from two petitioning groups, a group of nine individuals (Joint Petitioners) and a group of five organizations (Petitioning Organizations). The three administrative judges on the board will hear argument from representatives for the petitioning groups, Holtec, and the NRC staff.

 

The proceeding will be in the ASLB’s Hearing Room at NRC headquarters. It will be open for observation in person and via a listen-only telephone line. Those who want to attend in person should use the NRC’s main entrance at 11555 Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland, and should arrive by 7:30 a.m. Eastern time to allow time for security screening and escort to the hearing room before the oral argument begins. Visitors must provide a valid government-issued photo ID during the screening process. Signs, banners, displays or other demonstration materials are prohibited in the hearing room.

 

The public may listen to the oral argument by dialing 301-576-2978 and entering passcode 101 394 753#. For additional information please contact Twana Ellis at Twana.Ellis@nrc.gov or 301-415-6094.

 

The board is composed of three administrative judges from the NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel. Boards conduct adjudicatory hearings on NRC licensing and enforcement actions, and they are independent of the NRC staff. A board’s rulings may be appealed to the Commission, the five-member body that sets NRC policy.

 

Information on the Palisades restart review is available on the NRC website (click on “Potential Restart”).

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission - News Release
No: IV-25-001 January 22, 2025
Contact: Victor Dricks, 630-829-9662 Tressa Smith, 817-200-1172

NRC Proposes $9,000 Civil Penalty Against Paramount Builders, Inc.

 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a $9,000 civil penalty against Paramount Builders, Inc. of Pago Pago, American Samoa, for a violation of NRC requirements associated with its use of equipment containing radioactive materials.

 

The violation involved the company’s possession and use of two portable nuclear gauges, although only one was authorized in its NRC license. The devices are used to measure the physical properties of materials, such as soil at construction sites. Companies are required to properly handle and possess radioactive materials in the quantity authorized by their NRC license to protect public health and the environment.

 

The proposed fine stems from an unannounced inspection conducted in February 2024 at the facility, followed by an office review. During the inspection, 10 other violations were identified but were not assessed a civil penalty. All identified violations are documented in the September 2024 inspection report.

 

The NRC issued its decision after reviewing the circumstances surrounding the proposed violation and corrective actions taken by the company.

 

Paramount Builders has 30 days to pay the fine, dispute it, or request involvement from a neutral third-party mediator to resolve the issue.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission - News Release

No: 25-002 January 8, 2025

CONTACT: Office of Public Affairs, 301-415-8200

Matthew J. Marzano Sworn in as NRC Commissioner

Matthew J. Marzano, nominated as an NRC Commissioner by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, was ceremonially sworn in today by Chair Christopher T. Hanson. His term expires June 30, 2028.

“The next few years are some of the most pivotal in the agency’s history,” said Marzano. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to join my fellow Commissioners at this moment to work together to help shape the future of the NRC.”

The NRC has five Commissioners, one of whom is designated by the President as Chair. The Commission was established to be a collegial body that formulates policies, develops regulations, issues orders to licensees and adjudicates legal matters. The Commissioners serve five-year terms, with one term expiring every year on June 30. No more than three Commissioners may be of the same political party.

“I welcome Matthew Marzano to the NRC Commission as we prepare for the new year and the exciting events and issues before us,” said Hanson. “The Commission functions at its best when we are at our full strength of five.”

Marzano began his career as a civilian instructor for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that capacity, he oversaw the training of U.S. Navy personnel preparing for assignment as nuclear plant operators on submarines and aircraft carriers. Marzano then transitioned to the commercial nuclear power industry at the V.C. Summer new nuclear construction project in South Carolina, where he supported construction activities while pursuing a Senior Reactor Operator license. He earned his Senior Reactor Operator license at Braidwood Nuclear Power Station, in Illinois, where he led installation testing of a modernized control system to improve plant performance and safety.

Most recently, Marzano served as a “detailee” from the Idaho National Laboratory to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, where he advised the committee on policy matters relating to clean air, climate, and energy, including the bipartisan ADVANCE Act. Prior to this role, Marzano was selected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow, representing the American Nuclear Society and supporting the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Marzano holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida, where his research focused on the modeling of nuclear energy systems.

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Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2 - Security Baseline Inspection Report 05000387/2024401 and 05000388/2024401 (Cover Letter Only)

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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 14 On Data Centers, Three Mile Island Unit 2 Nuclear Plant Decommissioning

DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets January 14 On Data Centers, Three Mile Island Unit 2 Nuclear Plant Decommissioning, Abandoned Mine Land Reforestation

On the agenda for the January 14 meeting of the DEP Citizens Advisory Council are presentations on the development of data centers, 

Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Unit 2 decommissioning and abandoned mine land reforestation.

The Council will also hear an update on agency activities from Acting DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley.

Data Centers

Commissioner Kim belly Barrow, Vice Chair of the Public Utility Commission will provide a presentation to Council on the impact 

of data center development on electricity demands and the grid in Pennsylvania and the region.

The PUC held a technical conference on November 25 on the adequacy of electricity supplies in Pennsylvania, including the 

growing electricity demand from the development of data centers.

The PUC has a deadline of January 9 to submit follow-up comments on the issue to help the Commission identify issues

and actions it can take to address supply and grid issues.

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TMI Unit 2 Decommissioning

The damaged Unit 2 nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island in Dauphin County is being decommissioned 

by TMI-2 Solutions, 

an Energy Solutions company. The decommissioning is unrelated to the proposed restart of TMI Unit 1 to supply power to Microsoft data centers.

Joseph Lynch, Energy Solutions, will provide the presentation on the status of decommissioning activities.

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Appeal of FERC Order on Data Center and Nuclear Plant

https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/company-pursue-appeals-court-option-wake-ferc-order-data-center-and-nuclear-plant

Company to Pursue Appeals Court Option in Wake of FERC Order on Data Center and Nuclear Plant Talen Energy on Dec. 23 said it intends to pursue appellate remedies after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said that it would not immediately address a Talen Energy request for rehearing of a Commission order that rejected an amended Interconnection Service Agreement among PJM, Susquehanna Nuclear LLC and PPL Electric Utilities tied to a data center in Pennsylvania. www.publicpower.org