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EIA Analysis of Southwest Hydropower Generation Shows Record Lows and Slow Recovery

LCG, November 13, 2026--The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today issued an "In-Brief Analysis" highlighting the record lows for hydropower generation in the Southwest this summer. The prolonged drought conditions affecting the Colorado River Basin caused record low hydropower generation this summer in the Southwestern electricity supply region, which includes Arizona, New Mexico, and small parts of Nevada and California. Hydropower generation from April through August 2026 was a full 28 percent lower than the 10-year average and 19 percent lower than during the same period last year.

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NRC Issues Construction Permit for Long Mott High-Temperature, Gas-Cooled Reactor in Texas

LCG, November 11, 2026--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced on November 9 that it has approved the Construction Permit Application ("CPA") for the Long Mott Generating Station in Texas. Long Mott Energy, LLC (LME) must obtain a separate operating license from the NRC before loading fuel or operating the reactors.

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California's Davis has New Ideas for SoCal Ed

LCG, Sept. 26, 2001--California Gov. Gray Davis will call a special session of the state legislature next week in an effort to come up with a bill that would keep the state's second-largest utility, Southern California Edison Co., out of bankruptcy, and the governor has some new ideas that might work, his spokesman said yesterday.

Davis' spokesman Steve Maviglio said the governor has been in talks with key lawmakers, looking at new ways the utility might be "rescued" from bankruptcy. "It will be a new proposal," Maviglio said.

As to the special session, Maviglio said "He is calling it for Oct. 2," and added "We have no idea how long it is going to last."

The original idea, worked out between the governor and the utility last April, was for California to buy SoCal Ed's transmission system for $2.76 billion, which would have given the company enough money to pay most of the debt it ran up subsidizing low retail rates for its customers while paying high wholesale rates for the electricity it sold.

By the time the state Senate passed enabling legislation in April the plan had been a ended beyond recognition, and was not acceptable to SoCal Ed and would not have stood the test of public opinion. The measure then went to the state's lower house, the Assembly, where it was massaged to the point the state Senate no longer recognized it.

The bill was still awaiting action in a state Senate committee when the legislature adjourned for the year on September 15. "We did not want to embarrass the governor by taking the bill up and getting it seven votes," said San Francisco Democrat John Burton, who is president pro tem of the state Senate.

Later, after hearing that Davis would call a special session, Burton said "We should have killed this baby once and for all."

Some key lawmakers, including state Sen. Debra Bowen, a Southern California Democrat, doubt whether the special session will accomplish anything, given the amount of opposition to the SoCal Ed bailout.

Others in the state Senate say the special session may never happen. Though the governor has authority to call a special session, the lawmakers have the right not to show up. "The Senate could choose simply not to convene it," one said.

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