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AI and productivity growth
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
This month’s issue of Nuclear News focuses on supply and demand. The “supply” part of the story highlights nuclear’s continued success in providing electricity to the grid more than 90 percent of the time, while the “demand” part explores the seemingly insatiable appetite of hyperscale data centers for steady, carbon-free energy.
Technically, we are in the second year of our AI epiphany, the collective realization that Big Tech’s energy demands are so large that they cannot be met without a historic build-out of new generation capacity. Yet the enormity of it all still seems hard to grasp.
or the better part of two decades, U.S. electricity demand has been flat. Sure, we’ve seen annual fluctuations that correlate with weather patterns and the overall domestic economic performance, but the gigawatt-hours of electricity America consumed in 2021 are almost identical to our 2007 numbers.
UWC 2022 Speaker
Executive Vice President of Industry Strategy
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
Jeff Place is the executive vice president of Industry Strategy at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). Jeff joined INPO in June 1999 and was elected as executive vice president in January 2018. In this role, Jeff is responsible for all of INPO’s and the World Association of Nuclear Operators’ (WANO) commercial nuclear industry facing operations across the United States and six other member countries.
Jeff’s previous positions at INPO include vice president of Operations and Technical Support, director of Plant Evaluations, deputy director of Industry Training Accreditation, WANO Peer Review team leader, and corporate secretary and technical staff assistant to the CEO. Jeff also held an executive role at Xcel Energy, as vice president of Nuclear Fleet Operations. Prior to joining INPO, Jeff held various technical and leadership positions at four nuclear stations. He also served in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear program.
Jeff serves on the board of directors of United Way of Greater Atlanta and on Cobb County’s United Way Executive Advisory Committee. Jeff is also a member of U.S. Women in Nuclear Executive Advisory Committee.
Jeff holds a master’s degree in business administration from Kennesaw State University, a Bachelor of Science in applied science and technology from Thomas Edison State College, and a Bachelor of Science in human resource management from The New School.
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