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LCG, November 19, 2025--Oklo Inc. and Siemens Energy announced today that the parties have signed a binding contract for the design and delivery of the power conversion system for Oklo’s Aurora-INL (Idaho National Laboratory) nuclear small modular reactor (SMR). The agreement authorizes Siemens Energy to begin engineering and design work to expedite procurement of long-lead components and to initiate the manufacturing process for the power conversion system. Oklo’s expertise in advanced fission technology will be combined with Siemens Energy’s extensive industry experience with steam turbine and generator systems, with the ultimate goal of generating carbon-free, reliable electricity.
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LCG, November 19, 2025--NERC yesterday released its 2025–2026 Winter Reliability Assessment (WRA), which concludes "much of North America is again at an elevated risk of having insufficient energy supplies to meet demand in extreme operating conditions." The WRA does state that resources are adequate for normal winter peak demand, but extended, wide-area cold snaps will be challenging.
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Industry News
California Wants El Paso to Pay for Market Abuse
LCG, Oct. 17, 2001--The president of the California Public Utilities Commission yesterday asked federal regulators to ignore the decision of its top administrative law judge who ruled last week that El Paso Corp. and its affiliates did not conspire to drive up natural gas prices in the state.Loretta Lynch, appointed by California Gov. Gray Davis to head the CPUC, told lawmakers in Washington that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should "provide a remedy for past illegal actions and set a clear standard for the future." The remedy should be in the form of cash.Administrative Law Judge Curtis Wagner did not find evidence of manipulation. "While El Paso Pipeline and El Paso Merchant had the ability to exercise market power, there was not a clear showing that they had in fact done so," he said in his October 9 ruling.But Wagner said transcripts of telephone conversations in February of last year showed clear violation of FERC standards of conduct, which say a pipeline operator must share natural gas transmission information with all shippers and not just its own marketing affiliates.The standards also require that a pipeline company and its marketing affiliate must maintain "arm's length" separation."These telephone transcripts demonstrate blatant collusion on the part of El Paso Merchant and Mojave-El Paso Pipeline to keep secret a discount for service on the downstream Mojave system until the open season ended, giving El Paso Merchant an advantage in making its bid for the total 1,220 million cubic feet per day," Wagner wrote.The CPUC, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., and Southern California Edison Co., claimed El Paso withheld capacity on its pipelines into the state from March through November of last year. They asserted that the action inflated prices, costing the state $3.7 billion more than would have otherwise been paid for gas.Judge Wagner's decision did not convince Lynch. "This is a textbook case of market power exercised to increase prices unlawfully," Lynch told a U.S. House reform subcommittee hearing on California's natural gas industry.She added that if FERC fails to find that El Paso exercised market power "there isn't a market power case out there anywhere."
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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