Federal Energy Policy Needs to Go Nuclear for Reliability

To effectively develop a sound, sustainable energy policy, the people developing and/or vetting the policy must understand the energy space.

The basic forms of generation are: base load, peaking and opportunistic. Base load capacity is that which meets minimum demand 24 hours per day seven days per week. As of 2023, the U.S. base load capacity was coal (26.2%), nuclear (18.6%), hydropower (5.7%) and natural gas (43.1%).