Jigar Shah

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Odd Lots · Jigar Shah on the Three Big Things Driving the Nuclear Energy Revival · 30 Sep 2024 podcast

But so you're inefficiently using the grid.

So now you might have to put a lot more storage on the front end of the transmission line to use the grid more efficiently, and then put more storage in the back end of the line, which we call electric vehicles, to use that more efficiently, right?

And so we can get so much more out of the grid that we've

Already paid for, but we have to be intentional about the mix.

So we love solar and wind, and we should build as much of that as we can.

But we also need a lot of this clean firm power generation to match it as we retire so many coal plants, not because of environmental regulations, but largely because they're at the end of life.

I mean, many of these coal plants are requiring billions of dollars of additional investment to stay open, and people don't want to put that money.

into them.

And so I think there's a lot of constraints around us basically deciding what we're going to get good at.

Right.

And like, where are we going to start the flywheel?

I would suggest to you the flywheel has to get started across all these technologies.

The IRA and the bill, you know, legislation have been the single largest investment in starting this flywheel in the world.

And so we're super excited about it.

But the other piece of it, I remember, is that everybody else in the world wants our solutions.

So if we do it here, I mean Poland, Eastern Europe, all

These other places want to use American nuclear designs.

They want to use American technology.

They don't want to be tied to Russia or China.

And so part of this also is recognizing that, like the world is looking to us to show this leadership.

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