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LCG, November 19, 2025--Oklo Inc. and Siemens Energy announced today that the parties have signed a binding contract for the design and delivery of the power conversion system for Oklo’s Aurora-INL (Idaho National Laboratory) nuclear small modular reactor (SMR). The agreement authorizes Siemens Energy to begin engineering and design work to expedite procurement of long-lead components and to initiate the manufacturing process for the power conversion system. Oklo’s expertise in advanced fission technology will be combined with Siemens Energy’s extensive industry experience with steam turbine and generator systems, with the ultimate goal of generating carbon-free, reliable electricity.
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LCG, November 19, 2025--NERC yesterday released its 2025–2026 Winter Reliability Assessment (WRA), which concludes "much of North America is again at an elevated risk of having insufficient energy supplies to meet demand in extreme operating conditions." The WRA does state that resources are adequate for normal winter peak demand, but extended, wide-area cold snaps will be challenging.
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Industry News
SDG&E, Cal-PX May Have Answer to Price Spikes
LCG, July 21, 2000--San Diegans are hot under the collar about bills from their local electric utility that have doubled since May, and no amount of air-conditioning seems to help. But yesterday, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. said it had worked out a plan with the California Power Exchange that may protect its customers from price spikes in the wholesale power market.SDG&E has become, under Californias electric restructuring law, a delivery company for electricity, but no longer makes its own. It acts as a middleman for its customers, purchasing power on the Cal-PX and passing the cost on to its customers without a mark-up. But the bills come from SDG&E, and the heat is directed at the utility.Working with Cal-PX, SDG&E has cooked up a plan that would allow it to buy power on the exchanges "block forward market" up to nine months in advance, instead of the customary three months. That would protect customers from exposure to price spikes that occur in the "real time" spot market."This is a market-based tool that could help reduce the volatility in electric prices for our residentialand small-business customers during the high-demand summer months," said Edwin A. Guiles,president of SDG&E. "We hope the (California Public Utilities Commission) will allow us to implement the program as soon as possible, because our customers need help today."The company said it had filed an application with the CPUC late Wednesday and had asked that the petition be considered at the commissions August 3 meeting.George Sladoje, Cal-PX president, said his organization and the utility "worked diligently over the past couple of days to propose this market-based solution and help alleviate the current situation that San Diego's customers are facing. This proposal could provide some relief in the near term to the price spikes that San Diegans have been experiencing."Things arent as bleak for San Diego electricity customers as they seem to think they are. In May, a typical householder paid $50 for electricity and the current bill is around $100, so that householder figures hes out a hundred bucks and blames the utility and deregulation.But the exposure to market prices occurred because SDG&E paid off its stranded costs faster than anyone thought possible and is about to return close to $400 million to its customers. On top of that, theres another $100 million in a CPUC-controlled "transition cost balancing account" that will be returned to the companys customers.When the utility divvies that $500 million up among its customers in August and September, our typical householder will get about $300. He will then be two hundred bucks ahead. Will he then say to SDG&E "I dont really deserve this money?"
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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