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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
Companies Launch Voluntary Emission Trading Exchange
LCG, Jan. 17, 2002--A consortium of mostly US-based companies, as well as the cities Chicago and Mexico City, have announced their membership this week in the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a voluntary organization whose members will trade allowances to emit greenhouse gases as part of a four-year pilot program.Organized by Dr. Richard Sandor, who set up the international market in interest-rate derivatives, the exchange includes as founding members American Electric Power (AEP), Manitoba Hydro and BP, among others. Participants agree to a binding, aggregate reduction of 4 percent in greenhouse emissions compared with 1998-2001 averages, to be achieved by 2006. One reason for the participation of some members with operations in multiple countries is a desire to receive credit for overall reductions under the Kyoto Protocol, rather than needing to meet specific requirements within the borders of each participating country. The Kyoto Protocol, by which countries would be bound to reduce greenhouse emissions below 1990 levels, now requires Russia as a signatory to become enacted.The CCX would allow credit for offsets as well as reductions of emissions. These could be achieved by non-carbon-based renewable energy development, eliminating the release of methane from landfills or agricultural operations, and by planting trees, mainly if not exclusively in the US and Brazil. Overall, the companies involved in the legally binding agreement emit 700 million tons of carbon dioxide annually. Trading will be faciliated by an Internet-based platform.Many of the companies involved, which include Dupont and Ford Motor Company, would like to influence how any mandatory "cap-and-trade" programs covering greenhouse emissions in the US are implemented, and hope that experience gained in the CCX will serve as an advantage, should such legislation be enacted.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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