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X-energy, Amazon, American Electric Power Partner to Bring SMR Project to Indiana

$AEPPress releaseOct 19, 2026, 8:30 AM ETRead the release

American Electric Power signed a Joint Development Agreement with X-energy and Amazon to advance feasibility work for a proposed 960 MW, 12-unit Xe-100 small modular reactor plant in Sullivan County, Indiana, on a retired AEP-owned coal plant site. Amazon will provide milestone-based development funding as the second commercial deployment under its collaboration with X-energy targeting more than 5 GW of new nuclear capacity on the U.S. grid by 2039.

Key figures

Reactor model
Xe-100
Reactor units
12
Project capacity mw
960
Xe100 unit capacity mwe
80
Xenergy commercial pipeline gw
approximately 11.5 GW
Collaboration capacity target gw
at least 5 GW by 2039

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