Organizations, References and Appendices
- Organizations that lent time, insight, and expertise to develop the roadmap
- Foundational federal, state, and industry documents referenced in roadmap
- Glossary of acronyms and organizations
- Definitions used throughout roadmap
Participating Task Force Organizations
The Pennsylvania Nuclear Energy Roadmap is the result of collaboration, and while the strategies and considerations reflect the broadest possible set of views, they do not imply a full endorsement by every participant of the Task Force.
Foundational Documents in This Roadmap
Glossary of Acronyms and Organizations
| Advancing Reliable Capacity (ARC) Act | Artificial Intelligence |
| ADVANCE Act | Center for AI Standards and Innovation (part of the U.S. Department of Commerce) |
| AEPs | Community Benefit Agreements |
| Baseload Power | County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania |
| Capacity Factor | Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act |
| Capital Stack | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Contracts for Differences (CFDs) | Councils of Governments |
| Credit-Based Structures (CBSs) | Career and Technical Education |
| Dispatchable Generation | Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development |
| DOE | Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection |
| Dry Cask Storage | U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| EPRI | U.S. Department of Defense |
| Enrichment | U.S. Department of Energy |
| Firm Power | U.S. Department of Commerce |
| Fuel Cycle | U.S. Department of Education |
| Grid Reliability | Federal Communications Commission |
| Interconnection | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| Large Load Customers | Federal Trade Commission |
| Load Growth | Intelligence Community |
| NEI | Information and Communications Technology and Services |
| Orderbook | Long-duration energy storage |
| PJM | PJM Interconnection (regional transmission organization serving Pennsylvania and surrounding states) |
| Power Purchasing Agreement | Mid-Atlantic Clean Corridor/Data Center (used regionally in SE PA) |
| PEDA | National AI Research Resource (NSF-led federal initiative) |
| PUC | National Environmental Policy Act |
| Ratepayers | National Energy Dominance Council |
| Spent Nuclear Fuel | National Institute of Standards and Technology (part of DOC) |
| Transmission System | National Security Council |
| Fuel Cycle | National Secure Data Service |
| Fission | National Science Foundation |
| Fusion | Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| OTO | Governor’s Office of Transformation and Opportunity (Pennsylvania) |
| PA FastTrack | Pennsylvania Permit Fast Track Program |
| PA Sites | Pennsylvania Sites Program |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RTO | Regional Transmission Organization |
| SME | Small/medium enterprises |