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particular, nuclear. Haley comments:“ We’ ve been speaking with potential customers on partnerships within that arrangement. In the last couple of weeks [ at the time of writing ], we filed a request at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to extend an early site permit at our Grand Gulf nuclear power plant in Claiborne County, Mississippi. We won the ESP permit for that site back in 2007, which is now set to expire in 2027, but we’ re currently working with the new Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Trump Administration on seeking an extension for another 20 years. That’ s very important to us because it would help us to accelerate and reduce costs on another plant if we were to look at building one; it’ s something we’ re studying very carefully.
“ For example, we’ re looking at new technologies such as small modular reactors, which are greater passive safety systems than
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YourEmpireGroup. com what we currently use today,” he continues.“ We’ re making investments in upgrading our transmission systems with more resilient, robust structures, as well as into various other grid enhancement technologies, to ensure that the grid is stable and operating at its highest capability.”
With all these developments well underway, Entergy Mississippi is positioned for an exciting 12 months and an even more exciting future. Continuing to build upon its past legacies, Entergy Mississippi enters a new era defined by ambition, innovation and technological advancement, taking both its customers and communities into the future together. Haley concludes by sharing what the next chapter holds for Entergy Mississippi.
“ Now, we aim to look for other productive growth opportunities to serve our communities. Reliability and affordability remain at the front of our customers’ minds, and the new revenue generated by AWS is going to allow us to make further investments to offset the rate impacts to them,” he finishes, optimistic for the years ahead.“ We’ ll be rolling out a new reliability plan over the next five years to really drive that service and make the grid more reliable; we intend to introduce more self-healing networks to sense problems on the grid before they result in outages.
“ When I talked about this being a transformational period within the industry, it’ s worth noting that the United States is looking at energy dominance surrounding AI, and Entergy is making this happen – not just with us, but with our sister companies in Louisiana and Arkansas as well. We’ re working to bring these opportunities forward, not only to benefit our customers and communities, but to unlock a new era of investment in the United States going forward.” ■
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