State report weighs advanced nuclear options to meet future climate goals
The state’s report, citing federal sources, said there’s potential for "new" nuclear energy to help fill important and widening gaps in the state’s energy need as older fossil fuel plants are retired over the next two decades in line with state climate-law mandates. Nuclear needs to be considered, the report suggests, as the need for baseload energy grows in the face of intermittent green-energy sources such as wind, which produces less energy in summer, and solar, which is impacted by cloudy weather and darkness.