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Natura Resources Announces Agreement with NGL Energy Partners to Develop 100-MW SMRs with Large-Scale Produced Water Treatment in the Permian Basin

LCG, February 4, 2026--Natura Resources LLC (Natura), a developer of advanced molten-salt nuclear reactors, announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with NGL Water Solutions Permian LLC, a subsidiary of NGL Energy Partners LP (NGL), to pursue opportunities to combine Natura's advanced nuclear reactor technology with thermal desalination for power production and oil and gas produced water treatment. NGL transports, treats, recycles and disposes of more than 3 million barrels per day of produced and flowback water generated from crude oil and natural gas production in the Permian Basin.

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OPG Completes Darlington Nuclear Station Refurbishment Project Under Budget and Ahead of Schedule

LCG, February 2, 2026--Ontario Power Generation (OPG) announced today that construction on the four-unit Darlington Refurbishment project is now complete. Station staff are completing final testing, and the last unit is expected to return to service in the coming weeks. OPG stated that the overall project is currently four months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget.

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CAISO Finds Duke Did Not Withhold Power

LCG, Oct. 28, 2001--An analysis of generators' available capacity during May 8, 2001, a day on which rolling blackouts were ordered in California, has found that while earlier California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) conclusions concerning generators' withholding of power were substantially correct, Duke Energy did not withhold capacity on that day.

The California Independent System Operator (ISO) issued a report Friday in response to a request from state Sen. Joe Dunn (D-Santa Ana), who is investigating last year's energy crisis. The grid operator said that outage data provided by the ISO, which was used as the basis for a report last month by the CPUC, may have led the commission to make conclusions about specific generators' reasons for outages which may or may not be correct. The ISO stated in its report that Unit 3 of Duke's Morrow Bay plant was on scheduled outage on May 8, 2001, and that the ISO had asked some of Duke's other generators to reduce output, meaning no remaining capacity was available from the company.

According to the ISO, generators did have power available that was not bid into the market and were not always responsive to the grid operators' emergency orders. These behaviors did contribute to a difficult situation when the ISO required power in particular areas, according to its report. The ISO said however, that in discussing the usage of its outage data with the CPUC that the commission "may have used outage data that was useful for depicting outages on a macro level but which was not appropriate for investigation of unit-specific behavior during a specific subset of hours."

Among the considerations that the ISO said were not explicitly accounted for in the earlier CPUC report were generating units' ability to increase output at a certain rate, the units' actual capacity as opposed to their rated capacities, and the need to have units back down their output to provide more power later if necessary. Transmission constraints and ISO's need to maintain stable conditions on the grid were also cited by the ISO as not appearing in the CPUC findings.
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