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Our new agreement with NextEra Energy will bring Iowa’s only nuclear plant back to life.
Today, we announced a collaboration with NextEra Energy to accelerate nuclear deployment across the U.S., including the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa.

We expect Duane Arnold to be back online in early 2029, and the plant will provide more than 600 MW of clean, safe, “always-on” nuclear energy to the regional grid. This will support our growing cloud and AI infrastructure in Iowa and bring thousands of jobs and substantial economic benefits to the state. Through this agreement, we’re enabling the investment to restart the plant and covering costs for the production of energy from Duane Arnold.

Restarting a once fully operational plant is the fastest path to unlock large-scale nuclear power to meet AI growth in the near-term. This builds on other ways we’re working to rapidly enable access to reliable, affordable, and scalable energy solutions, from advancing new clean generation to making our demand more flexible and deploying next-generation transmission technology.

I wonder what kind of control system the plant has?  Is it the one original to 1975, or has it been modernized along the way to a DCS system typical in my industry?  In all reality, the one from 1975 can be more than adequate, it just may be difficult keeping it operational and updated.  

Sign of the times. Instead of "oh good, it missed us" it's "oh no, those poor Jamaicans!"