New York is planning to build the first major new US nuclear power plant in more than 15 years, Gov. Kathy Hochul said — and it will have enough output to power 1 million homes.
Hochul revealed the plans in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Monday, saying she’d requested the New York Power Authority to add at least 1 gigawatt of electricity generation to the state’s nuclear power capacity.
The authority is set to find a site upstate for the new facility and will come up with the new reactor’s design.
She added that the public utility could go at it alone or enlist private entities.
“I’m going to lean into making sure that every company that wants to come to New York and everyone who wants to live here will never have to worry about reliability and affordability when it comes to their utility costs,” Hochul told the outlet.
