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LCG, October 20, 2025--Holtec International announced today that the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant site in Michigan has received new nuclear fuel – 68 assemblies in total – that achieves a major milestone on the path to restarting the plant. The 800-MW facility was shutdown and decommissioned in 2022 due primarily for economic reasons; however, Holtec is progressing towards restarting the original unit by the end of this year, pending all necessary federal regulatory reviews and approvals. Achieving a successful restart of a shutdown nuclear unit will be a historic first for the nuclear industry.
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LCG, October 14, 2025--Calpine Corporation today announced the close of a Texas Energy Fund (TxEF) loan agreement to support development of the Pin Oak Creek project, a 460-MW, natural gas-fired peaking facility adjacent to Calpine's Freestone Energy Center, a gas-fired combined-cycle facility located on approximately 506 acres near Fairfield, Texas.
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Industry News
Power Prices Threaten Washington State Economy
LCG, March 14, 2001--An analysis by the Washington state Office of Financial Management, noting that electricity in the state costs 20 percent more than it did a year ago and natural gas 60 percent more, paints a grim picture for the economy of the state.In a worst case scenario, the study predicts that higher energy prices could cost householders $1.7 billion per year and cut job growth by a third. According to an Associated Press report, the hardest hit will be aluminum refiners, which use massive amounts of power. Those aluminum businesses located in Washington because of the abundance of inexpensive hydroelectric power.It takes water to make hydroelectric power and Washington's rivers are near their all-time lows, as are the impoundments behind dams. Those reservoirs are the fuel tanks for the turbines that provide much of the Pacific Northwest's electricity.Washington Gov. Gary Locke is expected to officially declare a drought emergency today. According to the energy analysis, electric power prices could rise another 50 percent and not come down for two or three years.That will be too much for the aluminum industry, according to Robin King, an official of the Aluminum Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade group. "Those high prices simply would not allow aluminum production to resume or continue," he said.Employment in Washington's aluminum industry has dropped from around 7,000 in 1998 to 5,000 today and a state economist says it will be down to 3,000 in another two years.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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