North Dakota’s Dept. of Commerce looking at nuclear power to meet the increasing demand for electricity
April 15, 2024
North Dakota’s Commerce Department has begun studying whether nuclear power could be used to help meet the increasing demand for electricity.
That demand is being driven – in part – by new data centers, that are using a lot of power.
“The ramp-rate of the need for baseload power is increasing, every time we pick the phone up and talk with another project,” said Rich Garman, the director of Economic Development and Finance for the Commerce Department. He told the Legislature’s interim Energy Development and Transmission Committee the state’s coal fired power plant fleet is aging, and new coal plants aren’t being built.
