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Dive Brief: - As large-load customers increasingly look to power their operations with new clean firm technologies like advanced geothermal and small modular nuclear reactors, clean energy tariffs, as well as bilateral customer-utility arrangements, are helping to commercialize and de-risk the deployment of these technologies, the Corporate Energy Buyers Association said in a May 21 report. - “The...
The narrative frames the development of clean firm technologies as a successful mechanism for risk transference and cost shifting, driven by the financial power of hyperscalers. The pattern observed is the systematic movement of capital-intensive risk away from the end-user (hyperscalers) and onto the utility and system, shielded by tariff structures. This creates a dependency where "innovation" is intrinsically linked to utility-backed mechanisms. The implicit assumption is that the regulatory ...