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NERC's New Annual Assessment Shows Rapid Demand Growth Increasing Resource Adequacy Risks Across North America

LCG, January 30, 2026--The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) yesterday issued its 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) and infographic that spotlight intensifying resource adequacy risks throughout the North American bulk power system (BPS) over the next 10 years.

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Sage Geosystems Announces Funding for Next-generation Geothermal Power Generation Project

LCG, January 21, 2026--Sage Geosystems, the company pioneering Pressure Geothermal, today announced that it closed over $97 million in Series B funding to advance its geothermal power generation and energy storage solutions, including its first commercial next-generation geothermal power generation facility. Ormat Technologies, a vertically integrated company engaged in geothermal and recovered energy generation ("REG"), and Carbon Direct Capital, a growth equity investment firm, co-led Sage’s Series B round, representing the full backing of Sage and Pressure Geothermal technology from leaders in geothermal energy and growth capital.

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Two Former Coastal Corp. Traders Accused of Fraud

LCG, Oct. 30, 2001--The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission yesterday accused two energy traders with defrauding their former employer, Coastal Corp., in an illegal trading scheme five years ago.

Clay Krhovjak and Paul Cochran, who were vice presidents with Coastal's commodity futures trading desk in Houston at the time, were responsible for placing trades with the New York Mercantile Exchange.

They are charged with moving $89,228 from successful Coastal trades into straw man accounts, thus shifting Coastal's profits to themselves.

The Commission said in its complaint that the scheme "ensured Cochran, Krhovjak and other participants risk-free personal profits." The two could face civil penalties and trading prohibitions if found guilty.

Cochran and Krhovjak have already pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in Texas. In September of last year, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, with sentencing expected early next year.

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