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LCG, October 21, 2025--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for their Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project located in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits allow ExxonMobil to convert three existing test wells permitted by the state to carbon dioxide (CO2) storage injection wells for long-term storage.
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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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Industry News
China: Death Penalty for Stealing Transmission Wires
LCG, Aug. 6, 2001--A Chinese man who stole a 500 kilovolt transmission line has been sentenced to death for the crime by the Supreme People's Court of Fukien Province, a coastal state fronting on the Taiwan Strait.The Xinhua news agency reported Saturday that Sun Huaijun had been found guilty of cutting out the line which connects power plant in the town of Changchow with the city of Amoy, on the coast.It was the second offense for Sun, who had stolen the line earlier in December, 1999. In both thefts, he hauled off 2.4 miles of wire, causing a loss of 2.62 million yuan ($316,000 U.S.) the news agency said.After the second offense, which Sun committed in January, 2000, police tracked him down in the city of Canton, in Kwangtung Province to the south, where he was arrested in March last year.According the Xinhua, sabotage of electricity facilities has become common and is considered a serious crime in China. In Fukien Province alone, 364 cases of theft and sabotage of power facilities were reported over the past four years, representing a total loss of 8 million yuan ($964 million).For those who order Beijing duck instead of Peking duck, Fukien Province is Fujian Province, Changchow is Zhangzhou, Amoy is Xiamen, Canton is Guangzhou and Kwangtung is Guangdong.
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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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