CERAWeek Event: Tripling Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
Tripling Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050: Unleashing nuclear's potential to power data centers, refineries, manufacturing and beyond
On the sidelines of CERAWeek 2025 in Houston, a global coalition of major energy users signed a pledge to emphasize nuclear energy’s essential role in enhancing energy security, resiliency and providing continuous clean energy, and support the goal of at least tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050.
To announce the historic pledge, World Nuclear Association, together with Urenco, hosted a cross-sector panel followed by networking reception at CERA Week in Innovation Agora on the evening of Wednesday 12 March. The panel discussion focused on nuclear’s role in providing energy security, and powering and decarbonizing a variety of energy-intensive industries. From tech to petrochemicals, aviation and beyond, there is an opportunity to expand nuclear’s clean, reliable and economical energy to power these industries and growing global energy demands. World Nuclear Association, together with its industry partners, calls for government leaders to enable policies for rapid nuclear development to meet the target—supported by 31 countries—to at least triple global nuclear capacity by 2050—an ambition that is increasingly being supported by financial institutions and end energy users.
Speaking at the event Sama Bilbao y León, Director General of World Nuclear Association, thanked participants and pledge signatories, saying: "Thank you for joining our large energy users pledge and supporting the ambition to triple nuclear energy by 2050. This is not the end; it is just the beginning. We know that many other large energy users are considering joining the pledge in the future. That is our hope and our invitation - If you would like to be part of this group, please join us!"
The CERAWeek event provided opportunity for the founding signatories of the Large Energy Users Pledge to take centre stage of the Innovation Agora. See coverage on social media and in the news below.
A wide range of media outlets also covered the event: CNBC broke the news live on television Wednesday morning, along with articles from Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes (Brazil), Axios, Barrons, CCN, Power Magazine, UPI, Washington Examiner and many others across the globe.
About Tripling Global Nuclear Energy Capacity
Initially launched at World Nuclear Symposium in September 2023 and in partnership with Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation ahead of COP28 in Dubai, the goal to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050 has earned support from 31 countries through the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy and more than 140 nuclear industry companies through an accompanying industry pledge. Fourteen of the world’s largest financial institutions backed the goal in September 2024. Now, they have been joined by a cross-sector group of large energy users that have endorsed the same goal, publicly at a conference that covers the entire energy sector.
The Large Energy Users Pledge was led by World Nuclear Association and its strategic partners within the Net Zero Nuclear initiative, including CERAWeek Event Co-Host Urenco Group.
The full list of signatories to the Large Energy Users Pledge is as follows: Allseas, Amazon, Bureau Veritas, Carbon3Energy, Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, Core Power, Dow, Fly Green Association, Google, Lloyd's Register, Meta, Occidental, OSGE, Siemens Energy (statement of support).
If your company relies on clean, firm energy for future growth, now is the time to act. Join us in advocating for the expansion of nuclear energy and sign the Large Energy Users Pledge. For more information about joining the Pledge, please contact Pippa Eames via pippa.eames@world-nuclear.org.