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Hydrostor Announces Offtake Agreement with California Community Power for the Willow Rock Energy Storage Center

LCG, February 12, 2026--Hydrostor today announced that the Willow Rock Energy Storage Center has signed a 50 MW offtake agreement with California Community Power (CC Power) on behalf of six of its community choice aggregator members: CleanPowerSF, Peninsula Clean Energy, Redwood Coast Energy Authority, San Jose Clean Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority and Valley Clean Energy Authority.

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VoltaGrid and INNIO Collaborate on 1.5 GW Deal for Behind-the-Meter Data Center Power Generation

LCG, February 4, 2026--Natura Resources LLC (Natura), a developer of advanced molten-salt nuclear reactors, announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with NGL Water Solutions Permian LLC, a subsidiary of NGL Energy Partners LP (NGL), to pursue opportunities to combine Natura's advanced nuclear reactor technology with thermal desalination for power production and oil and gas produced water treatment. NGL transports, treats, recycles and disposes of more than 3 million barrels per day of produced and flowback water generated from crude oil and natural gas production in the Permian Basin.

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Report on Blackout Faults FirstEnergy

LCG, Apr. 6, 2004--A report completed by a joint U.S.-Canadian group on the causes of the August blackout that affected a large region in the U.S. and part of Canada found that FirstEnergy's inadequate response to initial outages was largely responsible for the scale of the events that followed.

The report also listed a number of specific operational and maintenance measures that it said should be implemented in order to enhance reliability, and found that not many changes had yet been made since the blackout. The authors noted that there is currently no widespread standard for trimming trees near high-voltage transmission lines, despite the fact that local utilities routinely monitor trees near less critical distribution lines, based on rules established by state commissions. Disagreement among utilities on the issue of what maintenance near high-voltage lines might entail has discouraged the North American Electric Reliability Council from issuing standards.

In addition to the conclusion that load shedding by FirstEnergy in the amount of 1,500 megawatts might have headed off the blackout, the report also drew attention to shortcomings on the part of reliability councils and other grid monitors. FirstEnergy's senior vice president of energy delivery, Chuck Jones, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying "We don't think that's factually correct," in response to the report's assertion that the company failed to conduct voltage analyses to a degree that could have made its service area less vulnerable to widespread failures.
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