Louisiana Act 462 of 2025: green energy includes nuclear reactors

Louisiana's enrolled Act 462 of 2025 says energy generated by nuclear reactors is green energy for state programmes that fund green energy or clean energy. The domestic-fuel priority and the cost-comparison rule do not apply to nuclear generation. The enrolled signature line does not print an approval day, and the act does not appropriate money.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: statute · La. R.S. 30:1501 and 1502, enacted by 2025 La. Acts No. 462
Issued by: Louisiana Legislature
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Affects: State programme administration
Effective date: Not recorded
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Louisiana Act 462 of 2025 (HB 692), enrolled act (Enrolled Act 462 PDF opened 4 October 2026; approval line has no day)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Enrolled act creating the energy-grid chapter. Green energy includes energy generated by nuclear reactors, and that definition applies to state programmes that fund green energy or clean energy. The domestic-fuel priority does not apply to nuclear resources and generation. The cost-comparison rule does not apply to advanced nuclear resources or advanced nuclear generation. The act does not appropriate money and does not certificate a plant.

Not approved or still pending

The APPROVED line does not print a day, and the opened act prints no effective date. It is not an appropriation and not a commission order. No project is linked. The definition does not approve a reactor.

Dated lifecycle

2025 · actual · year · Enacted — The enrolled header prints 2025 Regular Session and ACT No. 462. The APPROVED line does not print a day, so no signature day is stored. (Louisiana Act 462 of 2025 (HB 692), enrolled act)

Definitions in this instrument

Green energy (R.S. 30:1502(D), enacted by Act 462 of 2025): Includes energy generated by nuclear reactors, and also energy generated using natural gas, in addition to listed federal renewable sources and qualifying hydrocarbons. The definition applies to state programmes that fund green energy or clean energy.
Legal definition used by this instrument only; SMRMap's inclusion rule for SMRs is separate and unchanged.

Projects or designs named by the source

None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.

Sources

Louisiana Act 462 of 2025 (HB 692), enrolled act (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)