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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
Enron Says Dispute Could Cost India $5 Billion
LCG, Sept. 19, 2001--Enron Corp.'s Dabhol Power Co. said yesterday that its dispute with the Indian state of Maharashtra could end up costing the federal government of India $5 billion, because of Maharashtra's disregard for its contractual obligations.Enron completed the first 740 megawatt phase of the Dabhol power plant near Bombay in the middle of last year and the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, the sole customer for the plant's output, immediately began dragging its feet in paying for the power it purchased.Enron was forced to invoke first state guarantees and later federal guarantees to get paid for bills tendered in the fall of last year and early this year. The MSEB in May canceled its purchases from the plant but still owes Dabhol for a month's power. The state-owned utility said Dabhol had "violated" contractual obligations, fined the company $400 million, and grandly advised it to simply deduct the electric bill from what it owed in fines.There was no provision for any of that in the power purchase agreement signed between Enron, Dabhol, the state of Maharashtra, the MSEB and the government of India six years ago.The MSEB has also said it would not take power from the a,444 second phase of Dabhol, which would have been completed by now had Enron not halted construction in July. In July, Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay also said his company wanted to get out of India and would sell its 65 percent interest in Dabhol for what it had in it -- $1 billion.In a statement released yesterday, Dabhol spokesman Jimmy Mogal said "Should this dispute be eventually resolved through the PPA-prescribed termination process, including international arbitration, the liability of (the MSEB, the government of Maharashtra and the government of India) would be approximately $5 billion."The statement also suggested that India could avoid facing liabilities that could total $5 billion by choosing to settle the dispute by paying offshore sponsors and foreign lenders. If it did so, its liability could be less than half that amount, the statement said."We also believe that (foreign lenders) too may now want to exit from the project entirely, and they would want their debt of approximately $1.1 billion to be purchased as well," Dabhol said.
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