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The Meta-Vistra deal: A closer look
With last Friday's announcement regarding its vision for nuclear energy, Meta has entered into 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) for more than 2,600 MW of electricity from a combination of three Vistra-owned nuclear plants to support the tech behemoth's planned operations in the PJM region.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP) SPeaker
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GenH
Robert Freda is a designer and technologist. He co-founded clean energy hydroelectric start-up, GenH. He is an MIT research affiliate with CANES and former creative director at Polo Ralph Lauren. Robert has won national awards in design (CFDA Men's, Pratt NTS Architecture) and holds multiple patents in energy generation technologies and associated systems. He has contributed to state of the art in n-dimensional matrix analysis & compression and momentum theory for fluid energy extraction in confined channels. Rob has published in the art on fluid dynamics, best practice market strategies, and system architectures for IPTV/wireless converged networks. He has been the designer for scale ($2+ billion) business units and built new brands in luxury markets. His area of expertise in energy systems is modular systems' techno-economic design, its application to nuclear energy and redesigned renewable energy in combined systems, and its competitive advantage in market, risk, and socio-economic dimensions.
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