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LCG, June 4, 2025--Energy Vault Holdings Inc. (Energy Vault) and Jupiter Power (Jupiter) today announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of an additional battery energy storage system (BESS) at a Jupiter site in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region. The initial BESS project, located near Fort Stockton, Texas, was completed in July 2024, with a storage capacity 100 MW/200 MWh. The new BESS project will add another 100 MW/200 MWh of capacity. Construction has commenced, and the project is expected to achieve commercial operations by the end of this summer.
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LCG, May 30, 2025--NuScale Power Corporation (NuScale), a leading provider of advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology, yesterday announced that it has received design approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its uprated 77 MW power modules. NuScale states that it remains the only SMR technology company with design approval from the NRC, and the company remains on track for deployment by 2030, with 50- and 77-MW SMR options.
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DOE Clears the Path to Build Coal Plant Employing IGCC Technology
LCG, April 3, 2007--The Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it has executed a Record of Decision that, according to the DOE statement, "clears the path for construction of a $569-million, 285-megawatt coal-fired power plant that will be one of the cleanest, most efficient plants of its kind in the world." The new plant will be built near Orlando, Florida at the existing Stanton Energy Center that is owned by the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC).
The new coal plant will employ an integrated gasification-combined cycle (IGCC) technology based on the transport gasifier that Southern Company and others have been developing at the Power Systems Development Facility near Wilsonville, Alabama. The transport gasifier offers a simpler method to generate power from coal and is cost-effective when handling low rank coal, as well as coals with high moisture or high ash content. The DOE will provide a $235 million federal grant for the development of the advanced coal plant.
The new facility will be co-owned by Southern Power Company (the unregulated subsidiary of Southern Company), OUC, and Kellogg, Brown and Root. Operations of the new facility had been planned previously announced to commence in 2010.
The project is one of three, demonstration projects receiving funding through the federal Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI), a 10-year, $2-billion demonstration program designed to improve the environmental performance of coal-fired power plants in the United States. The other two projects are Excelsior Energy Inc. and ConocoPhillips? 531-MW Mesaba Energy Project in Minnesota, and the Pegasus Technology Project, which combines Pegasus Technologies Inc. with Texas Genco to demonstrate technology advancements to reduce emissions.
Southern Company's wholly owned utility, Mississippi Power Company, is also developing an advanced coal plant. Last December, plans were announced to build a 600-MW power plant fueled by lignite in Kemper County, Mississippi that would use an advanced gasification technology developed by Southern Company. The estimated cost of the facility is approximately $1.8 billion. The project is to receive over $133 million in tax credits from the DOE as a result of the National Energy Policy Act of 2005. The Mississippi plant is scheduled to commence operations in June 2013.
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