|
News
|
LCG, November 6, 2025--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, (X-energy) and the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy today announced the start of confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to qualify X-energy’s proprietary TRISO-X fuel pebbles for commercial use in the Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR). (TRISO stands for TRi-structural ISOtropic). This is the first time that TRISO-X fuel pebbles will undergo irradiation testing in a U.S. lab, which is a critical step in meeting requirements set forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the commercial deployment of advanced reactors that will use the fuel.
Read more
|
|
LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
Read more
|
|
|
Industry News
New President of California PUC Appointed
LCG, Dec. 31, 2002--Commissioner Michael Peevey was appointed by California Gov. Gray Davis as his choice to replace the current President of the California Public Utilities Commission, Loretta Lynch, according to spokesman Steve Maviglio.In addition, Davis' Cabinet Secretary, Susan Kennedy, was named to the board, and would take the place of Henry Duque, who is scheduled to vacate his seat. With Duque's departure, Davis will have appointed all five members of the Commission board.Peevey is formerly a president of Edison International and executive at Southern California Edison. He was also chief executive at TruePricing Inc., which used technology to track energy usage for large business customers and government institutions, from 1995 to 2000.Legislators will need to vote on Davis' appointments, after the state's Senate members return to Sacramento on Jan. 6. It is not known yet when the appointments will be voted upon.
|
|
|
|
UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power 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...
|
|
|
|
|
