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LCG, October 21, 2025--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for their Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project located in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits allow ExxonMobil to convert three existing test wells permitted by the state to carbon dioxide (CO2) storage injection wells for long-term storage.
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LCG, October 20, 2025--Holtec International announced today that the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant site in Michigan has received new nuclear fuel – 68 assemblies in total – that achieves a major milestone on the path to restarting the plant. The 800-MW facility was shutdown and decommissioned in 2022 due primarily for economic reasons; however, Holtec is progressing towards restarting the original unit by the end of this year, pending all necessary federal regulatory reviews and approvals. Achieving a successful restart of a shutdown nuclear unit will be a historic first for the nuclear industry.
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Industry News
Washington State Utilities Hope for Refunds Based on Enron Memos
LCG, May 14, 2002--The trading strategies used by Enron's Western traders and the associated discussion in Dec. 2000 legal memos form the basis for a planned legal brief by Washington utilities seeking refunds for expensive power purchases.Seattle City Light and Tacoma Public Utilities will seek to recover $348 million paid for short-term power purchases from Enron and other power marketers. The utilities will again argue before an administrative law that the sales did not represent "just and reasonable" criteria enforceable by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Their arguments were rejected last fall, but may be seen in a different light since Enron's corporate attorneys' description of methods by which the company gamed the market in late 2000 and early 2001 have come into focus.Perhaps ironically, the FERC has sent letters to Seattle City Light among other public utilities as well as large traders, in order to determine whether their trading activities were designed to take advantage of the situation in California, where flexible price caps were placed on in-state generation. If refunds are found to be justified, the recovery of actual funds may be very difficult, due to the number of creditors interested in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. For the moment, Seattle City Light's rate increases following the power market crisis of the past year amount to 60 percent.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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