4 maintained projects
Advanced nuclear
Advanced nuclear covers small modular reactors and designs that use different coolants or fuels from today's large reactors. A project passes through distinct regulatory steps, and a design approved in one place is not a plant permitted in another.
Hermes 2 Demonstration Plant, Long Mott Generating Station, Aurora-INL powerhouse, Natrium Kemmerer Unit 1
1 maintained project
Next-generation geothermal
Next-generation geothermal uses drilling and reservoir techniques, including enhanced and closed-loop systems, to produce heat and power in places conventional geothermal cannot. Plants are often built in units or blocks that reach service at different times.
1 maintained project
Fusion
Fusion joins light atomic nuclei to release energy. Developers are working toward machines that produce more energy than they consume and then toward plants that turn that energy into electricity. Those are separate steps.
No maintained projects yet
Long-duration storage
Long-duration storage holds energy for many hours or days using chemistries and mechanical or thermal systems other than short-duration lithium-ion batteries. Power (MW), energy (MWh) and duration are three different quantities.
We publish reports on companies in this field, but maintain no project record yet.
No maintained projects yet
Grid and enabling infrastructure
New generation depends on fuel supply, large components, transmission and grid equipment. A plant can be mechanically complete and still wait on an interconnection, a transformer or a fuel contract.
We publish reports on companies in this field, but maintain no project record yet.