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LCG, May 30, 2025--NuScale Power Corporation (NuScale), a leading provider of advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology, yesterday announced that it has received design approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its uprated 77 MW power modules. NuScale states that it remains the only SMR technology company with design approval from the NRC, and the company remains on track for deployment by 2030, with 50- and 77-MW SMR options.
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LCG, May 29, 2025--The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released an analysis yesterday showing that the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the grid operator for most of the state, is increasing its curtailment of the rapidly growing solar- and wind-powered generation facilities in order to balance electricity supply and demand, which is necessary to maintain a stable electric system.
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Industry News
Nevada Utilities Ask FERC to Cut Prices in Power Contracts
LCG, Dec. 6, 2001--Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co., both subsidiaries of Sierra Pacific Resources Inc., said yesterday they have filed formal complaints with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking a reduction in future prices on contracts they entered into when wholesale power prices were higher than they are now.The companies say the problem with their contracts is more than bad timing. The energy crisis in neighboring California had driven wholesale electricity prices to record highs and there was a question as to whether power would be available to the Nevada utilities to serve their customers in 2002 and 2003.The companies complain that the prices for power under their contracts are "the product of markets found by FERC to be dysfunctional and not competitive" and should come under the same price caps the commission imposed on spot power sales in the West last June.Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific Power were happy with their 2002 and 2003 contracts until FERC imposed price caps on the spot market last June. That, coupled with new generation sources coming on line and benign weather, resulted in a dramatic easing of wholesale prices in both the spot and long-term markets. Now, the companies feel that FERC is "penalizing states that had secured longer-term contracts at a time when spot power prices were out of control," according to Walt Higgins, chairman, president and chief executive of Sierra Pacific ResourcesIn their filing, made under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act, the companies are asking FERC to reduce the prices of the contracts to the current market prices.
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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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