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NRC Accepts the Construction Permit Application for TVA's Small Modular Reactor Project

LCG, July 10, 2025--The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) accepted a construction permit application for review from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to build one of the nation’s first small modular reactors (SMR). TVA submitted its application in late May to use GE Vernova Hitachi’s BWRX-300 design and to install the advanced nuclear plant at its Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. TVA's application is the first in the U.S. that uses GE Vernova Hitachi’s BWRX-300 design.

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Red Oak Power Facility in PJM to be Acquired by Strategic Value Partners

LCG, July 9, 2025--Strategic Value Partners, LLC (together with its affiliates, SVP) yesterday announced that its managed funds (the "SVP Funds") have agreed to acquire Red Oak Power, an 831-MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power generation facility located in Sayreville, New Jersey.

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Southern Unit to Proceed with Three New Plants

LCG, Dec. 11, 2000--Southern Energy Inc. said on Friday it will proceed with development of three gas-fueled power plants, two in the Midwest ultimately totaling 1,120 megawatts of capacity, and one in New York of 750 megawatts.

"The Midwestern areas eventually served by two of these power plants are experiencing shortagesin electricity when demand is high," said Richard J. Pershing, chief executive of Southern Energy's Americas Group.

The company said it Energy intends to acquire the right to complete development of a 560 megawatt project in Wyandotte, Mich., south of Detroit. The development will be on a site formerly used for a variety of industrial purposes. The current developer already has obtained air permits for the site. and Southern expects to have the power plant running by the summer of 2003.

The company also began permitting to develop a power plant in Terre Haute, Ind., which will initially run as a 300 megawatt simple-cycle peaking plant in 2002. By 2004, the facility will be producing 560 megawatts of combined-cycle baseload power.

In New York, Southern plans a 750 megawatt expansion of its Bowline power plant in West Haverstraw, to be called Bowline Unit 3. Permitting for the project is underway, and the company intends to have Unit 3 running by the summer of 2003.

Southern Energy Inc. is an independent power producer subsidiary of The Southern Co.

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