Terra Praxis Files REPOWER New York with State Public Service Commission
Terra Praxis | New York | September 14, 2026
Terra Praxis has filed REPOWER New York, a new discussion paper, with the New York Public Service Commission as comments in Case 26-E-0335. __________
The paper sets out a roadmap for delivering 5 GW of new nuclear capacity under the state's Nuclear Reliability Backbone faster and more affordably, by repowering retired and at-risk fossil and industrial sites rather than building on greenfield land—replacing existing boilers with nuclear heat while retaining the site, grid connection, and workforce. It arrives as New York prepares its Advanced Nuclear Master Plan, due later in 2026, and as eight upstate communities have volunteered to host projects.
The case draws on New York's own record: NYSERDA's June 2026 Advanced Nuclear Policy Options Paper found that siting a large reactor at a brownfield rather than a greenfield site lowers capital costs and shortens the deployment schedule from twelve years to ten. Terra Praxis calculates that siting the first large unit at an existing site cuts its required contract price by 27% and saves two years on schedule—savings that disappear once a retiring plant's switchyard is dismantled and the site reverts to greenfield status.
"Most of what New York needs is already in its own analysis," said Kirsty Gogan, Managing Partner at LucidCatalyst and Founding Director & Co-CEO of Terra Praxis. "The decision in front of it now is not which reactor to buy, but how it is bought, built, and delivered."
Eric Ingersoll, Managing Partner at LucidCatalyst and Founding Director at Terra Praxis, added that a retired fossil site's value goes beyond the power it used to generate: its existing interconnection can carry firm electricity to a data center, steam to a neighboring factory, and heat to the surrounding town all at once. He noted that treating the Backbone as a repeat-build program gives New York's manufacturers a real order book to invest against, and that the highest-value dollars in the program are the ones spent completing design and site work before construction begins—savings that compound as each subsequent unit benefits from lessons learned on the first.
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