Dive Brief:

• A lawsuit that could have blocked a proposed two-unit 2,200-MW to 3,000-MW nuclear plant in Utah was rejected by a state judge.
• The judge ruled that the Utah water engineer appropriately granted water rights from the Green River to the nuclear project.

Dive insight:

"Nuclear power is ideal for baseline power, produces no carbon or particulate emissions and does not result in visual pollution," Utah 7th District Judge George Harmond wrote in his decision. "Blue Castle is not required to have a business plan that is certain to succeed, but rather is only required to establish that the plan is economically feasible."

Blue Castle Holdings has been developing its nuclear project for several years, but with stagnant load growth in the West and cost overruns at nuclear plants that are being built, it is unclear who would buy power from the plant. Blue Castle has not lined up any buyers yet.