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LCG, April 15, 2025--Matrix Renewables announced today the successful commissioning of the Pleasant Valley Solar 1 power generation facility in Ada County, Idaho. The 200-MWac solar facility includes a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) that was secured through negotiation with Meta and Idaho Power. Matrix Renewables states the facility is the largest operational solar facility in Idaho Power's system. Sundt Renewables, the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) services provider, completed construction of the project on March 2nd.
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LCG, April 9, 2025--Duke Energy announced yesterday its submission of a subsequent license renewal (SLR) application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the Robinson Nuclear Plant, a 759-MW nuclear unit located near Hartsville, South Carolina. The application requests extending the plant's operations for an additional 20 years.
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Industry News
Frisco Voters Approve Municipal Utility
LCG, Nov. 7, 2001--With all but about 9,000 absentee ballots counted this morning, a proposition to create a municipal utility in San Francisco appeared to have won by a 51 to 49 percent vote.It may be a while before the absentee votes are counted. Yesterday, the envelopes containing them were taken to an auditorium instead of City Hall for fear that any possible anthrax contamination could close down the building.Officials said they had received no threats but were just playing it safe. "It would be remiss to say that there are no fears of that," said Tammy Haygood, director of the Department of Elections, referring to anthrax. "We had no known threat of that."Proposition F, one of two measures on yesterday's ballot that would create a municipal utility, seems to have won, but a second measure, Proposition I that would have included the town of Brisbane, appears to have lost by the same 51 to 49 percent margin. In Brisbane, voters rejected the proposal with 760 against and 190 in favor.Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which had campaigned vigorously against both measures, may have shot itself in the foot. On Monday, its parent holding company, PG&E Corp., announced a 243 percent increase in profits for the third quarter.PG&E did not concede defeat, saying this morning in a statement "Voters saw through the MUD proposal and realized it did not offer a solution to the power generation crisis." The company did not explain how it saw a 51 to 49 vote in favor of Proposition F as rejection.Proposition F, if it is eventually declared the winner and withstands expected court challenges, would allow an elected board to declare eminent domain and buy PG&E's electric distribution system, for what the utility fears would be pennies on the dollar.Proponents of the measure pointed to Los Angeles, where the Department of Water and Power not only kept the lights on during the worst of the California power crunch when rolling blackouts plagued much of the state but had power to spare, selling it to California at market prices.There is a difference. The LADWP owns its own generation, with a healthy reserve capacity. San Francisco owns only three dams on the Hetch Hetchy water system. They have a maximum capacity of 334.5 megawatts, about a third of San Francisco's standard load, and have that power only when there is plenty of water in the rivers of the Sierra Nevadas.
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