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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
SoCal Ed 'Rescue' Bogs Down; Vote Likely Today
LCG, Aug. 29, 2001--The energy committee of the California Assembly yesterday postponed a vote on the so-called "rescue" plan for Southern California Edison Co. passed in July by the state Senate and now endorsed by Gov. Gray Davis as an alternative to the deal he worked out with the utility last April.The vote was rescheduled for today, giving committee members time to study the many last-minute amendments to the state Senate bill. Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, a San Francisco Democrat, had earlier warned the Assembly that the bill should not be tinkered with.Whether the Assembly committee send the measure to the floor for a vote by the entire chamber may not matter. SoCal Ed said the new version of the governor's deal was unacceptable in any case.Instead of calling for the utility to sell its transmission assets to the state for $2.76 billion, there is now a scheme that would give the state a five-year option to buy the wires at their book value, or $1.2 billion -- less than half the price agreed to by Davis."We find deeply objectionable the five-year option on the sale of the transmission system for book value," Brian Bennett, the utility's vice president for external affairs, said last Thursday. "There are many provisions which are workable in the bill as drafted," he said, "but that provision clearly makes this an unworkable piece of legislation." "Five years puts a cloud on a very significant portion of our businesses and add to that, puts a cloud at a price that is a fire sale price for a very valuable asset of the company," Bennett said.Instead of getting $2.76 billion with which to pay much of its $3.5 billion in debt, the utility would be allowed to market on its own some $2.5 billion in tax-exempt revenue bonds. The bonds would be paid for by SoCal Ed's 180,000 largest customers, leaving untouched the 4 million or so who are also voters.Opposition in the Assembly to what voters are bound to see as a bailout for the utility will make passage of the bill difficult even if it is approved in committee today. Reconciliation with the state Senate version could be even tougher. "It was difficult enough to get the bill out of our house as it was, and this bill is a lot, shall we say, sweeter for Edison and the industry," Burton said.
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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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