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Dive Brief:
Sawtooth Energy and Development, an independently owned energy developer in Idaho, plans to build a 462-MW nuclear power plant in southern Idaho, according to local news reports and a draft environmental impact statement.
The plant would take shape on public land previously earmarked for LS Power’s 1-GW Lava Ridge wind farm and use an Idaho Power substation that would have connected its turbines to the Western U.S. grid. President Trump halted Lava Ridge on his first day in office. 
Dan Adamson, project manager for Sawtooth, told Idaho News 6 that LS Power’s predevelopment work, President Trump’s recent nuclear executive orders and the federal budget bill Trump signed on July 4 could reduce the project’s development timeline from five years to about two years.