In 2020, the center spun out Last Energy, a commercial developer aimed at linking investors with agencies looking to build nuclear plants.
[6] In 2019, the center introduced the Nuclear Energy Grand Challenge,[7] a prize competition that asked university students to develop business proposals for mitigating the cost, duration, and risks of power plant construction and maintenance.
[3] The former is an open-source platform that aims to ease the design and construction process of nuclear power plants by providing freely-available blueprints.
[3] In 2021, EIC introduced a second podcast called Energy Impact that focuses on a broader range of energy-related topics.
[10] In July of that year, it was announced that Transcorp Energy in Nigeria had agreed to use EIC's OPEN100 model to construct the country's first nuclear power plants.
[12] The initial OPEN100 plans introduced in February 2020 called for a 100-megawatt pressurized water reactor[1] that could be built in 18 months at a cost of $300 million (USD).