The location of power generation has always been dictated by geography - proximity to rivers for hydros, close to population and transportation centers for coal, close to bodies of water for cooling (nukes), and in the best wind resource areas. This concentration of assets creates vulnerability and incurs high added costs for transmission lines - there are many advantages to distributed generation. Today the best example are natural gas peaker plants, but these comprise a small fraction of total generation. The LM development (or something like it) holds the potential of not only new sources of generation but the ability to completey change how generation has always been done. Thorium reactors and cold fusion LENR also hold this potential, but the LM brand carries high credibility.
What are the odds of new nuke plants in the next 10 years or so?