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LCG, April 15, 2025--Matrix Renewables announced today the successful commissioning of the Pleasant Valley Solar 1 power generation facility in Ada County, Idaho. The 200-MWac solar facility includes a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) that was secured through negotiation with Meta and Idaho Power. Matrix Renewables states the facility is the largest operational solar facility in Idaho Power's system. Sundt Renewables, the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) services provider, completed construction of the project on March 2nd.
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LCG, April 9, 2025--Duke Energy announced yesterday its submission of a subsequent license renewal (SLR) application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the Robinson Nuclear Plant, a 759-MW nuclear unit located near Hartsville, South Carolina. The application requests extending the plant's operations for an additional 20 years.
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Industry News
Report on Blackout Faults FirstEnergy
LCG, Apr. 6, 2004--A report completed by a joint U.S.-Canadian group on the causes of the August blackout that affected a large region in the U.S. and part of Canada found that FirstEnergy's inadequate response to initial outages was largely responsible for the scale of the events that followed.The report also listed a number of specific operational and maintenance measures that it said should be implemented in order to enhance reliability, and found that not many changes had yet been made since the blackout. The authors noted that there is currently no widespread standard for trimming trees near high-voltage transmission lines, despite the fact that local utilities routinely monitor trees near less critical distribution lines, based on rules established by state commissions. Disagreement among utilities on the issue of what maintenance near high-voltage lines might entail has discouraged the North American Electric Reliability Council from issuing standards.In addition to the conclusion that load shedding by FirstEnergy in the amount of 1,500 megawatts might have headed off the blackout, the report also drew attention to shortcomings on the part of reliability councils and other grid monitors. FirstEnergy's senior vice president of energy delivery, Chuck Jones, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying "We don't think that's factually correct," in response to the report's assertion that the company failed to conduct voltage analyses to a degree that could have made its service area less vulnerable to widespread failures.
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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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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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