Officials with Donald Trump’s administration will unfreeze more than a billion dollars for rural electric cooperatives in Michigan and Indiana to purchase power from the Palisades nuclear plant, should a planned facility restart succeed.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on March 25 that several programs authorized under Joe Biden’s signature climate law, paused when Trump took office, would release funds. That includes one offering more than a half-billion dollars each in nuclear subsidies for Michigan’s Wolverine Power Cooperative and Indiana’s Hoosier Energy for Palisades’ output.