Utilities may charge for nuclear pre-construction costs under bill sent to governor’s desk
A bill to subsidize the development of small modular nuclear reactors now waits for the governor’s signature.
Senate Bill 424 allows an Indiana utility to pass along some of the pre-construction costs to their customers — even if the plant never gets finished. So far, none of the ones in the U.S. have.
One federally-funded project was canceled in 2023 after more than a decade of work and nearly $9 billion in costs.
The legislation is one of several proposed this year to ensure AI data centers coming into Indiana have the massive amount of power they need to operate.
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