The White House sees nuclear energy as a key part of the pathway to decarbonize the grid by 2035. "Nuclear energy provides baseload power that will be needed for the foreseeable future", White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy said yesterday at a live event for The Washington Post. The White House is now putting together a clean electricity standard, or CES, that will mandate the decarbonization of the grid by 2035.
Nice. They really have to budget, plot and plan new reactors ten years out, because US gasoline and crude oil prices are forecast to be flat through at least 2022. No one will turn off the cheap gas megawatts.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/us_oil.php
