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I think the real question (not addressed by the article) is how much projected surplus there is as older plants reach their scheduled closure dates. Especially given the experience at San Onofre where the plant was closed early due to unexpected problems, it's reasonable to consider capacity if the 2.2 GW at Diablo Canyon goes offline before the current schedule of 2025.

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There's also San Onofre, which ended up being decommissioned before expected.

I'm sure you mean MW. Diablo Canyon supplies about 8.5% of the states energy.

> I'm sure you mean MW.

Unlikely, 2.2MW is pretty much nothing, it's the nameplate capacity of a single relatively large wind turbine (but not a huge one, the current record-setter is the 8MW Vestas V164). Even in SMR few commercial design go that low, there's only ABV (3~10MWe) and the quite odd ELENA effort (68kWe), but most designs are 2~3 digits electrical.

Diablo Canyon has a nameplate capacity of 2240MWe over two reactors, which is about 2.2GW.

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