the company, which had been "financially marooned" by its prior investor. A separate agreement gave Fluor the rights to construct NuScale-based power plants. In August 2012, Rolls-Royce Holdings said it would support NuScale's commercialization efforts and help it obtain funding from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Funding Opportunity Announcement. It was not funded in the first round. In the second round in December 2013, NuScale won up to $226 million in "cost-sharing" funding to share the expense of obtaining government approval, through the SMR Licensing Technical Support program. This was followed by an agreement in May 2014 for up to $217 million in funding over a five-year period, whereby DOE would match private funding. In December 2012, co-founder and CEO Paul G. Lorenzini was replaced by John Hopkins. The company and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) are working on the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP). It involves a cluster of 6 reactors. At full power, the plant would scalably produce 462MWe. DOE would provide about $140 million/year over 10 years, given Congressional support. UAMPS operates power plants in Wyoming, New Mexico, California, and Utah, selling to local utilities. As of 2021, 8 cities had withdrawn from CFPP. Deployment history In March 2012, NuScale signed an agreement with DOE that allowed NuScale and two partners to build and operate a NuScale-based nuclear power plant at a Savannah River site in South Carolina. The following month, Energy Northwest said it had no immediate plans to construct a nuclear power plant, but had evaluated all the available SMR technologies and identified NuScale as the best available option. In July 2013, NuScale announced an effort to demonstrate NuScale reactors in the western United States, called Program WIN (Western Initiative for Nuclear), with plans to build the first NuScale-based power plant there by 2024. In November 2014, NuScale announced it was building what it expected to be the first US SMR in Idaho. The plant is for CFPP with UAMPS. The company submitted designs to the NRC in January 2017. In 2020, DOE approved a $1.355 billion cost-share award. In July 2021, the proposal downsized to 6 reactors, and the expected electricity price increased to $58/MWh. In January 2018, the NRC agreed that the passive safety features allow NuScale's SMR design to operate safely without back-up power. In August 2020, the NRC issued a final safety evaluation report, certifying the design as having met