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LCG, November 6, 2025--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, (X-energy) and the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy today announced the start of confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to qualify X-energy’s proprietary TRISO-X fuel pebbles for commercial use in the Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR). (TRISO stands for TRi-structural ISOtropic). This is the first time that TRISO-X fuel pebbles will undergo irradiation testing in a U.S. lab, which is a critical step in meeting requirements set forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the commercial deployment of advanced reactors that will use the fuel.
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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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Industry News
SoCal Edison Proposes Discounts for Struggling Businesses
LCG, Apr. 9, 2004--The California Public utilities Commission received a plan last week put forth by Southern California Edison that would allow the utility to grant discounts to medium-sized businesses that are able to show poor financial health, in order that Edison could retain those businesses as viable customers of the utility.The plan would provide discounts starting at 25 percent in the first year, and incrementally smaller discounts for each of the next four years, with changes of 5 percent per year. The likely impetus behind Edison's proposal is an interest in deterring its customers from using direct access, which allowed businesses to pursue wholesale deals with competing suppliers until the California energy crisis. Bills have been introduced in the Legislature that would restore the ability of large energy users to make such deals.PUC Commissioner Loretta Lynch articulated a concern that, if implemented, such discounts as the plan proposes could result in a transfer of costs to smaller, mostly residential users of electricity. Lynch said that efforts should be made to bring lower rates to all customer classes. If industrial customers were to leave Southern California Edison due to direct access, it could also result in higher costs for residential utility customers who remain.
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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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