The only way that we can resolve these challenges, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a timeframe that avoids the worst consequences of climate change, is to develop next-generation sources of clean base load power.

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The report does point to the benefits of nuclear power, including competitive pricing, strong base-load power provision, and low-carbon emissions.

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Moreover, it could do so reliably and that means wind power could be used for what is known in the jargon as base-load power supply.

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Base-load power is the minimum required to keep things ticking over the demands of three o'clock in the morning, or thereabouts.

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Because geothermal produces consistent, base-load power--it doesn't depend on the wind blowing or the sun shining--utilities will pay up to three times more for geothermal electricity than for electricity from an intermittent source, like wind.

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That is well above the base power load and the surge is supplied by less efficient fossil fuel power generators as well as some peak pumped water storage.

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Babcock builds smaller nuclear units of 100 megawatts, which can also be aggregated together to supply as much power as a base-load nuclear generator, or 1, 000 megawatts.

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It is a source of base load, low-carbon and largely fixed-cost power for many utilities.

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They went over a comprehensive energy reform plan, and based on their study, they realized that they would be dependent on liquid fuels, but base load wise, they could be energy independent through nuclear power.

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