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LCG, May 30, 2025--NuScale Power Corporation (NuScale), a leading provider of advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology, yesterday announced that it has received design approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its uprated 77 MW power modules. NuScale states that it remains the only SMR technology company with design approval from the NRC, and the company remains on track for deployment by 2030, with 50- and 77-MW SMR options.
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LCG, May 29, 2025--The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released an analysis yesterday showing that the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the grid operator for most of the state, is increasing its curtailment of the rapidly growing solar- and wind-powered generation facilities in order to balance electricity supply and demand, which is necessary to maintain a stable electric system.
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Industry News
National Grid to Manage Alliance RTO
LXCG, Aug. 29, 2001--British electric power transmission company National Grid Plc said yesterday that it has been selected as managing member of the Alliance regional transmission operator, an 11-state transmission system manager stretching from the Midwest to the Appalachians.National Grid will make an initial investment of $75 million in Alliance Transco and continue with investments amounting to between 5 percent and 20 percent of the total invested by the RTO's 10 members.During the seven-year contract, National Grid will be paid $14 million a year by Alliance. It will be able to increase those earnings through an incentive systems based on reliability and customer savings.Alliance members have placed under the RTO's management transmission assets with a book value of $12 billion.The deal must receive approval of the member companies as well as that of federal regulators, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this year gave Alliance its tentative okay.In order to meet FERC's requirement that it be a "nonmarket" participant, National Grid said it would sell any remaining economic interests of affiliates in the power-generation and supply markets in the U.S.
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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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