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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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LCG, October 14, 2025--Calpine Corporation today announced the close of a Texas Energy Fund (TxEF) loan agreement to support development of the Pin Oak Creek project, a 460-MW, natural gas-fired peaking facility adjacent to Calpine's Freestone Energy Center, a gas-fired combined-cycle facility located on approximately 506 acres near Fairfield, Texas.
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Industry News
Guilty Plea Submitted by Enron Trader in Manipulation Case
LCG, Feb. 5, 2003--A trader for Enron, Jeffrey Richter, responded in Federal District Court in San Francisco yesterday to a case alleging his participation in false scheduling of power resources in the California power market with a guilty plea.Richter, 33, had previously told F.B.I. agents investigating the energy crisis of 2000 and 2001 that he had not submitted any power schedules intended to deceive market operators. He admitted Tuesday to having lied to the agents. Speaking about the interview on Sept. 26, Matthew J. Jacobs, an assistant United States attorney, was quoted in the New York Times, "The most significant thing is that the defendant is admitting that he made false statements. This should send a message that if anyone impedes or obstructs the investigation they can and will be prosecuted."The investigation that led to Richter being charged was triggered based on documents generated by a meeting between Richter, fellow trader Timothy Belden and one other trader with a company lawyer. The participants discussed trading strategies that allowed Enron to profit by deceptive practices, including by receiving payment for relieving fictional congestion.Richter pleaded guilty to engaging in strategies that could have contributed to raising market prices, Get Shorty and Load Shift. While Belden, who has been cooperating with prosecutors, admitted to wire fraud for his role in Western energy markets, his involvement appears to have taken place starting in 1998, rather than in 2000 as was the case with his less senior colleague. Mr. Richter became a trading assistant for Enron's West Power short-term trading desk in June 1999. A fine of as much as $250,000, and a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison for each guilty plea could be imposed, based on market manipulation and lying to investigators.
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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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