|
News
|
LCG, December 30, 2025--Duke Energy announced today its submission of an early site permit (ESP) application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The site is near the Belews Creek Steam Station in Stokes County, North Carolina. The submittal follows two years of work at the site, and the announcement states that the submittal is part of Duke Energy's strategic, on-going commitment to evaluate new nuclear generation options to reliably meet the growing electricity needs of its customers while reducing costs and risks.
Read more
|
|
LCG, December 29, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today issued a summary of its 2025 accomplishments to highlight its commitment to "enabling the safe and secure use of civilian nuclear energy and radioactive materials through efficient and reliable licensing, oversight, and regulation to benefit society and the environment."
Read more
|
|
|
Industry News
US GAO Affirms CA Crisis Related to Shortage
LCG, June 25, 2002-The United States General Accounting Office released a report yesterday which finds that the California energy crisis was due to a lack of capacity in the state.Politicians have disagreed over the origin of the California crisis, and recently exposed market manipulation pratices have set politicians' fingers pointing at energy companies.The GAO report asserts that market manipulation alone did not result in the crisis and that the state had a higher demand than supply.The report also pointed out that new generation was built in other deregulated sates, such as Pennsylvania and Texas, at a much higher rate relative to forecasted need than that in California. Through 2001 California built a quarter of its forecasted capacity needs, while Texas built more than twice is forecasted capacity need.The GAO included several reasons for a lack of generation investment in California, including more unpredictable regulatory review and a longer permit process, 4 months longer than Pennsylvania and 10 months longer than Texas. Also, the GAO reports that Clean Air Act standards complicate permitting in California, and the unstable California market may scare off energy development.Republican Representative Doug Ose has lauded the report and finds it supports his efforts to eliminate governor Gray Davis' control of the California Independent System Operator. Ose also asserts that changes must be made or shortages will plague the state again soon, although many energy officials have already asserted that the state has sufficient supply, and new energy projects are under development.
|
|
|
|
UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
|
|
|
UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
|
|
|
UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
|
|
|
PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
|
|
|
|
|
