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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
Bonneville Sees 250 Percent Rate Hikes
LCG, April 10, 2001Bonneville Power Administration said yesterday that it would have to raise wholesale electricity rates by 250 percent on October 1 unless its customers retail utilities in the Northwest and large industrial customers cut back energy use within the next 60 days.That is a lot worse than the picture Bonneville painted three months ago, when it said wholesale rates could rise 60 percent on average for the next five years."Recent developments in the market now require a first-year increase of 250 percent or more, absent vigorous efforts to reduce demand," said Steve Wright, acting BPA administrator. "This could double the retail rates of many Northwest consumers."A long-running drought is leaving the region short of electricity this summer and winter, which could pose reliability problems but, longer term, an underlying energy shortage threatens high costs and difficulties in meeting demand for several years until new power plants, power lines and conservation can be brought on line, Bonneville said.The Eugene Register-Guard said on Sunday that flow in the Columbia River looks more like it does in midsummer that what should be the start of the annual spring runoff. The paper said power production at dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers has been cut back by about a third.But the drought isn't the entire story. The Northwest is suffering from the same basic problem that caused California's electric mess an insufficiency of supply in the face of increasing demand. To make matters worse, about a year ago Bonneville signed contracts to sell more power than it has. That forced the federal agency into the volatile wholesale market at a cost of more than $2 billion.Last May, Bonneville signed contracts to provide utilities, aluminum companies and others with about 3,000 megawatts more power than the agency could lay its hands on even when the rivers were flowing at their normal rates. Officials at Bonneville assumed they could buy inexpensive power on the open market.Bonneville spokesman Mike Hansen said "people were under the impression that we'd be able to hold rates down. No one predicted what now has happened."
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