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LCG, May 1, 2025--Holtec International (Holtec) announced the signing on April 29 of a strategic cooperation agreement with the State of Utah and Hi Tech Solutions, a leading nuclear services provider based in Kennewick, Washington, to collaborate in the deployment of Holtec's SMR-300s (small modular reactor) in Utah and the broader Mountain West region. Hi Tech will play a leading role in the project development and workforce training to support the rise of new nuclear power generation in the region.
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LCG, April 29, 2025--Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) today outlining the state’s plans to administer programs related to carbon storage wells, known as Class VI wells. The MOA signing is a required step in the RRC’s application to be granted authority to permit Class VI wells in the state of Texas. EPA is currently preparing a proposed approval of RRC’s primacy application.
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Industry News
$10 Billion-for-Power Bill Becomes California Law
LCG, Feb. 2, 2001The California Assembly yesterday afternoon mustered the bare minimum number of votes necessary to pass legislation allowing the state to purchase billions of dollars worth of electricity under long-term contracts, and it was immediately signed into law by Gov. Gray Davis.The law authorizes the state to issue an estimated $10 billion in revenue bonds to fund a program under which the California Department of Water Resources will buy power, presumably at low-low rates, and resell it to utilities for delivery to consumers.What has not yet been determined is whether power producers will sell electricity to the state at the hoped for rates. An initial round of bidding produced a "weighted average" of 6.9 cents per kilowatt-hour, 25 percent higher than the 5.5 cents legislators had said was the highest permissible price.It later turned out that the governor's "weighted average" did not include power that would be delivered during periods of high demand.The Assembly had failed to pass the measure early yesterday after a marathon Wednesday session lasting past midnight. But some Republicans said they crossed the party line after receiving assurances from the governor that he would aggressively encourage the development of new power plants.Residential electricity customers would be protected from rate increases unless they used 130 percent more power than an arbitrary "baseline," a figure some said would be meaningless. That provision was seen by some Republican lawmakers as having the effect of transferring the higher cost of power to industrial and commercial customers.Several large California industrial firms Intel Corp. among them have already said they will not plan new facilities in the state and will consider moving some operations to places where electricity is both cheaper and more reliable.That possibility raises the specter of the residential customers protected from higher rates not having the paychecks with which to pay their low rates.
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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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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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