Mitch Davidson, center, a managing partner in Brookfield’s Renewable Power and Transition Group, tells hundreds of attendees of the second annual SC Nuclear Summit, held Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, about what motivated his company to consider investing in the restart of partially built reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear site near Jenkinsville, S.C. To his left is Luca Oriana, president of long-term operations at Westinghouse. The moderator on his right is Jamie Smyth, energy editor at the Financial Times. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
COLUMBIA — A day after inking a $2.7 billion deal to lead South Carolina’s nuclear reboot, executives of a New York investment firm were in the Palmetto State to talk about what drew them to the multibillion-dollar undertaking.
Hundreds gathered Tuesday on the floor of Colonial Life Arena in Columbia to hear from South Carolina utility executives, legislators and leadership of Brookfield Asset Management — the winning bid holder selected to restart construction on two abandoned reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant in Fairfield County…