Three Mile Island Plant to Shut Down in September After Bailout Proposal Fails

Three Mile Island will be shut down on Sept. 30, 2019.

MIDDLETOWN, PA—Citing little progress on a bailout bill that would have provided the state’s nuclear power plant operators approximately $500 million, Exelon Generation reports it will shut down its Three Mile Island Generating Station Unit 1 nuclear plant on Sept. 30, 2019.

Exelon originally announced the plant closure in May 2017, but in an announcement on Wednesday stated that with just three legislative session days remaining in May and no action taken to advance the bailout legislation—House Bill 11 and Senate Bill 510—“it is clear a state policy solution will not be enacted before June 1, in time to reverse the premature retirement of the plant.”