The new nuclear energy looks different, which requires new types of financing. There seem to be new investments and partnerships happening every day across the industry, including SK Group’s $250 million investment in Terrapower, and X-Energy’s partnership with Dow Chemical.
What can be done to encourage financial investment and improve the economic viability and return on investment for small and medium-sized businesses? How is new nuclear energy different, and how do we fund it?
Reuters’ latest Events report – Equity Capital, Financing and Feasibility for Small and Medium Enterprises – dives into the vehicles that will help provide financing to support SMRs and the deployment and commercialization of advanced reactors. What to expect from the report:
- Expert insight into financing developments – analysis of new types of financing for small, medium-sized and advanced reactors, who they will help, and means of underwriting financing. Deep dive into how utilities can help with standardized publishing and licensing approaches
- Securing financing for new nuclear energy: Providing financing is central to the commercialization of SMR. How can new forms of financing help startups that can move away from mere talk and toward signing deals?
- “We need to see operators sign deals” – CNSC has 10 vendors in pre-design review, 2 of whom are proposing a design license for the model. SMR should be more monetizable and easier to license, but what are the barriers to operators putting pen to paper?
