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March 10, 2026

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Georgia Power
Trump Orders Nuclear Regulatory Acceleration, Streamlining
President Trump moved to speed up nuclear power development with a series of executive orders designed to ease federal regulations on the sector.
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Regulators Focus on Energy Affordability at NECPUC Symposium

Government officials and industry executives discussed how to mitigate rising energy costs in New England at the NECPUC Symposium.

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House Passes Reconciliation Package that Would End Energy Tax Credits
The House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill” that would extend tax cuts for individuals and render energy tax credits effectively useless. 
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
So far, Nuclear Energy Credits Remain in Reconciliation Bill
Nuclear energy got at least a temporary boost as the reconciliation bill hashed out in the House of Representatives spared it from most of the policy changes aimed at other forms of clean energy.
GE Vernova
TVA First U.S. Utility to Request SMR Construction Permit
The Tennessee Valley Authority crossed a milestone May 20, becoming the first U.S. utility to request a construction permit for a small modular nuclear reactor. 
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
Counterflow: The SMR Fission Vision in Ontario
Experience with small modular reactors (like other nuclear) is for massive cost overruns, writes columnist Steve Huntoon.
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Mass. Gov. Healey Introduces Energy Affordability Bill
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has filed a major energy bill that her administration says would save ratepayers $10 billion over the next decade.
Standard Solar
N.Y. Moves to Boost Lagging Clean Energy Development
New York is tweaking its approach to clean energy development as it works to get its lagging decarbonization efforts back on track. 
House Ways and Means Committee
House Committees Mark up Budget Bill that Guts Energy Tax Credits
Efforts by U.S. House committees to mark up the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” that includes most of President Donald Trump’s legislative goals could so complicate energy tax credit provisions as to make those instruments difficult to use at all.
OPG
Ontario Greenlights OPG to Build Small Modular Reactor
Site preparation is underway in southern Ontario for what is expected to be the first small modular reactor to come online in North America, a 300-MW unit projected to cost $7.7 billion CAD.

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