With earmarked fundssecured byTexassenatorKayBaileyHutchison, Green Freedom hasplans to buildademonstrationfacilityat a nuclear powerplant set forconstructionin WestTexas.
David Crane, chief executive of NRG Energy, made news last week when he announced that the New Jersey-based power producer would abandon further investment in a Texasnuclear power project.
In the war of words between the Governors of Texas and California over the obvious advantages of the Texas business climate, the latter went nuclear and singled out Lubbock as the Texas weak spot.
In addition, several companies, including TXU, appear to be banking on the probability that they will be able to build new nuclear power plants in Texas within the next decade.