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NuScale Power Achieves Standard Design Approval from NRC for 77 MW SMR

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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EIA Presents Analysis of California's Solar and Wind Power Curtailment Challenges

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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Arizona Merchant Plant Construction Underway

LCG, Jan. 23, 2002--The Mesquite generating station is the second largest merchant plant now being built in Arizona.

Sempra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, is developing the plant, which is expected to have the first block of its overall capacity online by the middle of 2003. The combined-cycle plant will consist of two combustion turbines and a steam turbine, and is expected to produce at maximum output by early 2004. Each of the two blocks will be rated at 625 megawatts.

The Mesquite plant is located in southwestern Arizona, near Arlington. The other, largest merchant power plant being built in the state is the Gila River plant, which should be rated at 2,300 megawatts.
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