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LCG, December 16, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced today that it has renewed the operating licenses of Constellation LLC’s Clinton Unit 1 in Clinton, Illinois, and Dresden Units 2 and 3, near Morris, Illinois, for an additional 20 years beyond the current expiration dates. The combined capacity of these three, Illinois-based nuclear units is 2,925 MW, and the operating license extension will enable the units to generate carbon-free power through about 2050.
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LCG, December 12, 2025--Today, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) announced strategic organizational changes designed to accelerate innovation, strengthen grid reliability, and support the unprecedented growth in the demand for electricity across Texas. To meet these objectives, ERCOT created two new organizations: Interconnection and Grid Analysis, and Enterprise Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The two organizations will formally launch in January 2026.
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Industry News
Austin Energy Opens Sand Hill Energy Center
LCG, November 5, 2004--The official opening of Austin Energy's new, 300-MW Sand Hill Energy Center occurred on Wednesday. The cost of the station, located near the Austin airport, was $177 million. Consistent with the Austin's environmentally sensitive outlook, the gas-fired, combined-cycle station will use reclaimed wastewater.With the addition of the station, Austin Energy will begin the phased, shut down of the aging, gas-fired Holly Power Plant, which was built between 1960-74 in east Austin. In December of this year, two 100-MW units will be retired, with the two remaining 200-MW units to be shut down in December 2007.
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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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