- Meta Illinois signs a 20 -year deal to carry forward the nuclear power facility
- Clinton Clean Energy Center was scheduled to shut down in 2027
- The facility will provide 1,121 MW of “emission-free nuclear power”.
Meta has revealed a deal to pursue an atomic power plant over the next 20 years that states that AI has a bid to strengthen the continuous demand.
Clinton in Illinois is owned by Clean Energy Center, Constellation energyIt was due to mothball in 2027, but now thanks to the support of Meta will remain open.
The 20-year deal will provide the facility 1,121 MW of “emission-free nuclear energy”, with an additional incremental capacity of 30mw if necessary.
The deal would only mark the second American site to host the nuclear reactor built in this century, after the plant vogel, in 2023, near Venasboro, Georgia.
“As we have designed to help and help in understanding nuclear power in the US, we have heard from the ecosystem that without the current nuclear power plant partners and investments, we will not be able to stay online indefinitely who help to expand the existing operating license and increase the ability of the generation,” Meta said. statement,
“It is clear that there are many nuclear power plants serving the US that require long-term support to help our electric grids to be reliable as energy requirement increases.”
“Keeping the operation of an existing plant will have the same positive impact as adding new clean energy to the grid, and avoid the disintegration when other nuclear units retired prematurely.”
Built in 1987, Meta says Clinton Clean Energy Center support will also preserve more than 1,100 local jobs and contribute $ 13.5 million annually to tax revenue.
The plant was facing closure long earlier as 2017 due to financial pressure, but Illinois passed its Future Energy Jobs Act in 2016, which extended its operations through the Zero-Foreign Credit (ZEC) program. This was due to expiry in 2027, but the support of the meta should now be seen that it has been operating for a long time.
The Dominguase, President and CEO, Nakshatra said, “We are proud to partner with Meta because they asked that important question, and even better, he came to know that supporting the remains and expansion of the existing plants is effective as finding new sources of energy.”
“Sometimes the most important part of our journey stops stepping forward.”
A report in March 2025 was commissioned by the firm and was made by the Bratal Group, claiming that the Clinton Plant would have given rise to 34 million metric tons of additional carbon pollution in 20 years – an additional 7.4 million gas -operated cars were coming on the road for a year – as well as igno -765 million.
