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LCG, November 6, 2025--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, (X-energy) and the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy today announced the start of confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to qualify X-energy’s proprietary TRISO-X fuel pebbles for commercial use in the Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR). (TRISO stands for TRi-structural ISOtropic). This is the first time that TRISO-X fuel pebbles will undergo irradiation testing in a U.S. lab, which is a critical step in meeting requirements set forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the commercial deployment of advanced reactors that will use the fuel.
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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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Industry News
California Wants El Paso to Pay for Market Abuse
LCG, Oct. 17, 2001--The president of the California Public Utilities Commission yesterday asked federal regulators to ignore the decision of its top administrative law judge who ruled last week that El Paso Corp. and its affiliates did not conspire to drive up natural gas prices in the state.Loretta Lynch, appointed by California Gov. Gray Davis to head the CPUC, told lawmakers in Washington that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should "provide a remedy for past illegal actions and set a clear standard for the future." The remedy should be in the form of cash.Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner did not find evidence of manipulation. "While El Paso Pipeline and El Paso Merchant had the ability to exercise market power, there was not a clear showing that they had in fact done so," he said in his October 9 ruling.But Wagner said transcripts of telephone conversations in February of last year showed clear violation of FERC standards of conduct, which say a pipeline operator must share natural gas transmission information with all shippers and not just its own marketing affiliates.The standards also require that a pipeline company and its marketing affiliate must maintain "arm's length" separation."These telephone transcripts demonstrate blatant collusion on the part of El Paso Merchant and Mojave-El Paso Pipeline to keep secret a discount for service on the downstream Mojave system until the open season ended, giving El Paso Merchant an advantage in making its bid for the total 1,220 million cubic feet per day," Wagner wrote.The CPUC, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., and Southern California Edison Co., claimed El Paso withheld capacity on its pipelines into the state from March through November of last year. They asserted that the action inflated prices, costing the state $3.7 billion more than would have otherwise been paid for gas.Judge Wagner's decision did not convince Lynch. "This is a textbook case of market power exercised to increase prices unlawfully," Lynch told a U.S. House reform subcommittee hearing on California's natural gas industry.She added that if FERC fails to find that El Paso exercised market power "there isn't a market power case out there anywhere."
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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