EnergyOnline
Services

RSS FEED

EnergyOnline.com rss

News

Entergy Estimates Customer Savings of $5B from "Fair Share Plus" Data Center Agreements

LCG, March 6, 2026--Entergy yesterday announced approximately $5 billion in total savings for 2.3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi resulting from data center customer agreements in those states. Entergy, which completed its first data center customer agreement in 2024, projects the customer savings over the next 20 years and after the regulatory approval or acknowledgement of the public service commissions in those states.

Read more

NRC Approves the Natrium® Reactor Construction Permit for TerraPower's Wyoming Nuclear Project

LCG, March 5, 2026--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced yesterday that it has authorized the staff to issue TerraPower’s subsidiary, US SFR Owner, a construction permit for the company’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 commercial nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Read more

Industry News

TVA Issues Update on Completion of Watts Bar Unit 2

LCG, October 30, 2013--The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) yesterday issued a quarterly update on the construction of the 1,180-MW, Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear power plant, located in Spring City, Tennessee. TVA stated that the carbon-free, nuclear project remains on track for most likely completion by December 2015 and within a cost range of $4 billion to $4.5 billion.

TVA reports that safety performance is strong and the quality control acceptance rate is high. Furthermore, bulk construction is in the final phase, and the project is transitioning to complete work and prepare plant systems for pre-operational testing. TVA received a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license for fuel to use in Unit 2, and the fuel deliveries commenced last summer.

The original construction on Watts Bar 2 started over 40 years ago in 1972. However, when load growth forecasts dropped in 1988, the unit was deferred. When Watts Bar 1 began commercial operations in May 1996, it became the last commercial nuclear unit in the United States to come on-line.

Construction on Unit 2 resumed in 2007. In April 2012, TVA announced problems with the project, and that the project approved by the TVA board in 2007 appeared "aggressive but doable? at that time. However, TVA further stated, ?The emerging estimate to complete Watts Bar Unit 2 will require additional funding of $1.5 billion to $2 billion, putting the total estimated cost of completion in the range of $4 billion to $4.5 billion. The estimated time to complete is between September and December of 2015."
Copyright © 2026 LCG Consulting. All rights reserved. Terms and Copyright
UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
Uniform Storage Model
A Battery Simulation Model
UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
CAISO CRR Auctions
Monthly Price and Congestion Forecasting Service