> The ramp-up is expected to start slowly. BI forecasts only 9 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity of any type will be added in the next decade, and widespread deployment of SMRs won’t start until after 2035.
The world deploys 1GW of solar PV every 15 hours currently.
This is a con to slow the low carbon energy transition, when combined with the US federal government kneecapping renewable subsidies. That's great and all they're going to supposedly add 9GW of SMRs to the US grid within the next ten years, but there are ~5k US datacenters today, and they are still trying to build more. And who will be held accountable if they build zero SMRs? No one.
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-...
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e...
https://electrek.co/2025/09/24/eia-solar-and-wind-crush-coal...
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64705
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/images/figure_6_01_c...
https://reneweconomy.com.au/watershed-moment-big-battery-sto...
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/china-is-quietly-saving-the-wo...
(the US currently deploys ~50GW of utility scale solar PV annually, and installed 10GW of batteries in 2024, with 20GW expected in 2025)
aanet•4mo ago