I read recently that Westinghouse is working to build small scale (300 Megawatt) nuclear power stations.
Hopefully, we won’t be making nearly every house in the USA into an eyesore.
There are 2 or 3 entities exploring the small scale nuclear reactor, and several utilities are supporting the research as well. It could be a nice fit to replace a lot of the coal plants that the dictators in DC have deemed to be the enemy, as they could be built on the same property that once was a coal plant. The ideal electrical infrastructure is already in place for the most part - multiple transmission lines exiting the plant, a robust substation bus and equipment, etc.
At the other end of the spectrum is large scale solar and wind generation. Solar at the utility level consume a HUGE amount of land, land that could serve better to raise cattle or pigs for food. Wind farms are equally a nuisance, but not for the same reasons. They have a tendency to chop up birds, and are given a waiver for that environmental disaster by the green mafia as they seek to desecrate our power system.
In both cases, a large investment in additional transmission line assets are needed to get the power from the remote generation location to the cities and industries that need the power. And, of course, building transmission lines is NOT an easy task because every single property owner along the proposed path has to be dealt with. There are numerous litigations in effect as we speak over the issue of transmission buildout that is needed to get some of the already-built alternative energy to the customers.