“I expected everyone who worked in my department to understand the business. You had to learn the business. The corporate affairs function is respected when you know the business.”

Conversations with former Con Edison Senior Vice President, Frances Resheske; former FERC and Wisconsin PSC Commissioner and utility CEO, Branko Terzic.

“The average wait for renewable farms, such as solar or wind farms to connect to the grid is 3.5 years. We can instantly change that just by swapping out the old conductors one-for-one with the TS conductor, as you can easily double, triple the capacity in the grid.”

Photos from the New York City gathering of tech, financial, and industry leaders.

“We have to get our heads around the fact that the world wants new nuclear. Our best communications advice would be that there is breakthrough technology that secures our future. It’s innovative, it’s clean, it’s abundant, it’s advantageous.”

“If you’re on the regulatory side, lean into this. If you’re on the deployment side of government capital, lean into this. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs, American technology, and supporting a network globally that gets us to 100% clean.”

“I am so tired of people asking me how we’re going to solve the financing problem in nuclear. I have 300 billion in loans that nobody wants because we don’t have projects to finance. I need utilities to place orders for reactors, and I am happy to give them low-cost loans to finance that development.”

“The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was born out of the Infrastructure Act. We oversee more than 25 billion in clean energy technology. We transferred over to this new office from the Office of Nuclear Energy, two advanced reactor demonstration projects, the X-energy project and TerraPower Natrium project.”

“So, I just sit here at the Investing in Advanced Nuclear Energy conference and listen to a whole bunch of experts who were brilliant, every single one of them. I agree, I think, with everything that was said.”

Excerpted remarks at “Investing in Advanced Nuclear Energy,” hosted in New York by EPRI, EEI, NEI, Guggenheim Securities, Nuclear Innovation Alliance.