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RWE Commissions the 200-MW Stoneridge Solar Project in Texas

LCG, November 26, 2025--RWE announced today the commissioning of the Stoneridge Solar project, located in Milam County, Texas. The project capacity is 200 MW of solar power, plus a battery energy storage system (BESS) that provides 100 MW (200 MWh) of battery storage capacity. The BESS improves the supply of short-term, reliable, affordable electricity in ERCOT.

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Oklo and Siemens Energy Sign Agreement to Accelerate Power Conversion System for New SMR in Idaho

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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Science Panel Recommends Gradual Approach at Yucca

LCG, Feb. 10, 2003--A group of scientific experts with the National Research Council issued a report, "One Step at a Time," which supports a gradual evolution of storage procedures for nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, as well as more research as storage commences.

The report said that the Department of Energy, which is moving towards many of the recommendations in the report, would need to build the support of stakeholders, such as authorities in Nevada, in order to make a more gradual storage plan work as intended. Nevada officials, such as Sen. Harry Reid, R-Nev., stated their view that the report's suggestion that more waste be stored aboveground was evidence that the Department of Energy's design for an underground repository was never fully formed.

"If there was an expectation from the get-go that this was going to be an experimental process and you do this on an ongoing basis, that might be one thing, but that's not the way the law was written," said Bob Loux, head of Nevada's Agency for Nuclear Projects. The report said that in order to avoid costly or harmful consequences of proceeding too fast with underground storage, a staging area bigger than the one first planned could be used to handle waste while smaller, preliminary tests were made with interring waste for several years. Loux said that more emphasis on the staging area contradicted licensing conditions and environmental statutes.

The report noted that those handling the waste in the "buffer storage" area, where shipments would first be repackaged and blended to manage heat release, could be subject to more radiation exposure if delays ran into the hundreds of years.
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