UAMPS downsizes NuScale SMR deployment plans; reflects commercial and project management challenges for SMR scale-up.

When Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) announced its plan in 2015 to develop the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) using NuScale Power's modular light water reactor design, it envisioned constructing twelve 50-MWe modules for a total output of 600 MWe. UAMPS later increased the target to 720 MWe by scaling up to 60-MWe modules. In late June, the project was revised once more, with UAMPS participants deciding to build six 77-MWe modules instead—yielding 462 MWe of capacity, approximately 64 percent of the 720 MWe that twelve 60-MWe modules would have generated.