Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to Restart Following Microsoft Agreement

Constellation Energy has signed its largest-ever power purchase agreement with Microsoft, which paves the way for the restart of the Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear plant, the biggest owner of U.S. nuclear power plants said on Friday. Microsoft and other major technology firms have been looking to purchase zero-carbon electricity to power up their data centers, which are consuming growing amounts of electricity. For their part, power-generating companies and utilities are raising power supply and planning for a surge in U.S. electricity demand,…