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LCG, November 6, 2025--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, (X-energy) and the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy today announced the start of confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to qualify X-energy’s proprietary TRISO-X fuel pebbles for commercial use in the Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR). (TRISO stands for TRi-structural ISOtropic). This is the first time that TRISO-X fuel pebbles will undergo irradiation testing in a U.S. lab, which is a critical step in meeting requirements set forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the commercial deployment of advanced reactors that will use the fuel.
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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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Industry News
California Will Not Collect $2.8 Bln Refund
LCG, May 30, 2002--An argument submitted in March to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, seeking refunds for $2.8 billion in alleged power purchase overcharges, was rejected today by the agency's commissioners.The charges in question were incurred during the period May through October 2000, for purchases made by the state from power marketers. Normally, such complaints over power sales are required to be filed 60 days from the date of purchase, but Lockyer told the FERC that the fact that quarterly reports filed by the companies did not disclose specific transactions justified waiving that requirement. The FERC agreed with Lockyer insofar as it found less detail in the reports than is required. In its order, however, it said, "The reporting deficiencies identified by the attorney general in the quarterly reports, while serious and in need of correction, do not invalidate market-based pricing tariffs as lawful, filed rates."Another, similar case filed by Lockyer seeks $8.9 billion in refunds. The case, which is still pending before the FERC, covers the later period of October 2000 through June 2001. Reports from some companies, among them Williams Cos, Mirant Corp., Reliant Energy, and Dynegy Inc., were considered insufficiently detailed by the FERC, which allowed 30 days in which the reports would have to be re-filed. The transaction records sought by the FERC would detail short-term sales to the California Water Department, the California Power Exchange, which is no longer operating, and the California Independent Sytem Operator (ISO), beginning in 2000 and through all of 2001. The transactions had earlier been submitted in aggregated form.
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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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