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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
Congress Gets Fusion Research Legislation
LCG, May 10, 2001Legislation to accelerate research into fusion an as yet elusive means of producing nuclear power was introduced yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat."It is time for this country to move beyond caveman technology to the technology of the future, fusion technology," said Lofgren as she announced the legislation to reporters while posing in front of the Capitol Hill Power Plant, which burns coal, oil and natural gas.Conventional nuclear power plants operate on the principle of fission, in which atoms are split by neutrons and, in a chain reaction, produce more neutrons to split more atoms. With fusion, atoms are welded together to produce power, and there is no high-level radioactive water.The process has intrigued scientists for decades, but a power plant employing fusion is still more decades in the future, they say."We're still a long way away. Thirty years ago they used to say it would be 30 years, and they're still saying the same thing," said Robert Park, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. "We can fuse atoms every day, but the trick is when you produce more energy than it takes to get there."Fusion research funds have decreased about 40 percent in the past decade, and Lofgren wants to reverse that. Her legislation, the Fusion Energy Sciences Act of 2001, seeks an increase of $72 million over the next two years. It would also require the energy secretary to submit a plan by July 2004 for the next major step in fusion energy, a burning-plasma experiment.The fusion process should not be confused with so-called "cold fusion," a discredited theory that one reads about in the same magazines that carry articles on how your automobile can be made to run on water instead of gasoline.
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