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LCG, July 29, 2025--The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) today reported third quarter fiscal year 2025 financial results, including $9.8 billion in total operating revenues on 121 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity sales for the nine months ending June 30, 2025. TVA reported total operating revenues had increased 11 percent over the same period last year, primarily due to higher rates and sales. TVA presented that sales of electricity increased 3 percent compared to the same period last year, primarily due to higher sales to residential and small customers, as well as increases within the data processing, hosting, and related services sector.
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LCG, July 24, 2025--The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the next steps in the Trump administration’s plan to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure by using Federal lands to lower energy costs and help power the global AI race, as previously outlined in President Trump’s Executive Orders on Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure, Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security, and Unleashing American Energy.
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Industry News
NRC Chairman Talks of Nuke Renaissance
LCG, April 27, 2001Chairman Richard Meserve of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission told reporters yesterday that most, if not all, commercial nuclear energy companies plan to keep their plants running beyond their initial 40-year licenses.He added that he would not be surprised if some nuclear power plants abandoned for economic reasons in the 1980s were reconsidered for completion, even though the NRC licensing process would likely have to begin over for such facilities."Perhaps the most startling recent development is the growing industry interest in the construction of new nuclear plants," Meserve said, although he said he had heard of no specific plans for a new nuclear power plant.The NRC has already approved 20-year license extensions for five reactors belonging to two utilities, Meserve said, and has on file applications for license renewals for another 34 reactors."We now expect that between 85 percent and 100 percent of the existing nuclear plants will seek license renewal," Meserve said. "It is even possible that we may receive an application to conclude certain reactor projects that were suspended for economic reasons in the 1980s."Meserve, a Democrat appointed by President Clinton a year and a half ago, said he expected the current administration's energy task force, headed up by Vice President Dick Cheney, will endorse nuclear energy as an essential part of the nation's energy mix.As for the NRC, there has been talk of "streamlining" procedures to permit "fast track" approval of license extensions. The process will still take anywhere from two years to two and one-half years, Meserve said. "We have to be satisfied that if we allow an extension, there will not be a reduction in safety," he said. "If they don't meet the criteria, we're going to reject the application."
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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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