In June 2017, Connecticut passed a law allowing nuclear power plants to bid into markets with other zero-carbon resources such as wind, solar and hydropower. However, the timescale applied to at risk plants in draft versions of the request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) would have delayed the inclusion of Millstone – Connecticut’s only operating nuclear power plant – until 2023. Millstone’s two pressurised water reactors have a combined capacity of 2088 MWe, and generate about 45% of the state’s electricity.
