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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
What FERC Found Wrong with California Regulation
LCG, Nov. 3, 2000--An investigation into the California electricity market by the staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found a lot of things wrong with the ways in which state regulators and politicians have handled the deregulated power industry, but three problems cause most of the trouble.In the first place, there were no identifiable bogeymen behind the run-up in electricity prices this past summer. The high wholesale prices -- ultimately high retail prices to customers of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. -- were the work of competitive market forces, known to economists as the law of supply and demand.FERC's staff said that unusually high temperatures for protracted periods coupled with an insufficiency of generation resources were the main cause of the high prices, though increased power production costs played a part.In the second place, FERC found that the way the California Independent System Operator handles the problem of replacement reserves -- going into the market to buy power when margins fall below specified levels -- actually increases market prices. The staff recommended an overhaul of Cal-ISO's market rules.Third, and possibly most significant, was FERC's finding that the deregulation law's requirement that the state's three investor-owned utilities make all their electricity transactions through the California Power Exchange placed the companies at the mercy of the volatile spot market while denying them risk management options such as long-term power supply contacts to replace capacity lost when they were forced to divest generation assets.George Sladoje, chief executive of Cal-PX, agreed with FERC and implied that his exchange should have been a voluntary market all along. "The proposed elimination of the mandatory must buy-sell requirement is consistent with independent governance and the market and regulatory flexibility that the Cal-PX had anticipated," he said.The FERC staff also noted with some dismay that there seemed to be no response on the part of the load to the high prices. Apparently times are so good that electricity customers shrugged their shoulders and kept burning power during peak periods, and then complained to regulators and politicians who just made matters worse.
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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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