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(August 31, 2006)--More nuclear-generated electric power could be in the long-term future of TXU customers.
The Dallas-based utility holding company announced Thursday that it plans to ask federal regulators to approve licenses for new nuclear-fueled power plants at one to three sites.
TXU says it expects to apply for construction and operating licenses from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2008.
It says it hopes to bring the new generators on line between 2015 and 2020.
The plan is to add two to six gigawatts of nuclear-fueled generating capacity to the nine gigawatts of proposed coal-fueled generating capacity TXU already has announced.
Together, they'd almost double TXU's present 18 gigawatts of generating capacity.
The plan includes the proposed doubling of the electricity generating capacity at TXU's only nuclear-fueled power plant at Comanche Peak near Granbury.
It now has a generating capacity of more than two gigawatts.
TXU is also reviewing a list compiled over 30 years of potential new sites for nuclear plants.
TXU says it's already had preliminary talks with the Lower Colorado River Authority and San Antonio's municipally owned CPS Energy about partnerships.
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