Amazon is funding 960 megawatts of nuclear power at a retired coal plant in Sullivan County, Indiana. The reactors are the announcement. The switchyard is why it works.
- Twelve Xe-100 units of 80 megawatts each, grouped four at a time, for 960 megawatts total.
- AEP and Indiana Michigan Power signed a joint development agreement with X-energy on 19 October. Amazon funds development and would buy the power.
- The site is the former Breed Generating Station, which already has a transmission interconnection and a utility that has run a plant there.
- There is no final investment decision. AEP said the terms carry the capital protections a utility needs, which puts construction risk on the funder.
- Amazon’s target with X-energy is more than 5 gigawatts of new US nuclear by 2039. This is the second project named.
The megawatt you need in 2028 will not come from a reactor. It will come from an interconnection that already exists. Full analysis here.
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