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LCG, November 19, 2025--Oklo Inc. and Siemens Energy announced today that the parties have signed a binding contract for the design and delivery of the power conversion system for Oklo’s Aurora-INL (Idaho National Laboratory) nuclear small modular reactor (SMR). The agreement authorizes Siemens Energy to begin engineering and design work to expedite procurement of long-lead components and to initiate the manufacturing process for the power conversion system. Oklo’s expertise in advanced fission technology will be combined with Siemens Energy’s extensive industry experience with steam turbine and generator systems, with the ultimate goal of generating carbon-free, reliable electricity.
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LCG, November 19, 2025--NERC yesterday released its 2025–2026 Winter Reliability Assessment (WRA), which concludes "much of North America is again at an elevated risk of having insufficient energy supplies to meet demand in extreme operating conditions." The WRA does state that resources are adequate for normal winter peak demand, but extended, wide-area cold snaps will be challenging.
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Industry News
CPUC Upholds Non-utility Power Deals
LCG, Mar. 22, 2002--By a 3-2 vote, the California Public Utilities Commission yesterday allowed large energy customers who signed deals with non-utility energy providers and marketers through September 2001 to continue as "direct access" customers.The vote was supported by Jeff Brown, Henry Duque and Michael Peevey, Gov. Davis' latest appointee, after the Legislature had not yet produced legislation concerning "exit fees" that would be assessed on direct access customers. The exit fees, which Brown said would be the PUC's priority, would be a way to spread part of the costs associated with the state's power crisis among all customer groups, and would likely be assessed according to actual consumption. Brown said that if exit fee assessments are not sufficient to mitigate the additional cost impact of deregulation on small customers, he would vote to revoke contracts that were signed after July 1, 2001. A previous vote stopped new direct-access contracts signed after September 20th.Approximately 12 percent of the energy consumed within the service territories of PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. has been purchased by direct access customers, who include large businesses, municipalities, school districts, and the state university system.PUC President Loretta Lynch and Commissioner Carl Wood, who voted to end direct access, said that the Legislature's order last year that the PUC suspend direct access meant that the Commission should not try to interpret the law, but implement it. Doug Heller of the Foundation Taxpayer and Consumer Right said of the decision, "they're allowing the very same businesses that pushed for deregulation to escape the problems that resulted from deregulation."Lynch said the commission voted without a clear legal ability to instate an exit fee. Earl Bouse, who chairs the California Large Energy Consumers Association, and is an executive at Hanson Permanente, a cement company in Cupertino, said that an exit fee as has been proposed by state consultants could wipe out savings realized from direct-access. The fee proposed was 2.395 cents per kilowatt hour, to which Bouse responded, "then it's a question of whether we can continue to do business in California."
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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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