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LCG, December 1, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced today that the NRC staff completed its final safety evaluation for the application submitted by TerraPower, on behalf of its subsidiary US SFR Owner, to construct the Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Unit 1 will be the first nuclear project of its kind using the Natrium advanced reactor design. The evaluation concludes there are no safety aspects that would preclude issuing the construction permit.
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LCG, November 26, 2025--RWE announced today the commissioning of the Stoneridge Solar project, located in Milam County, Texas. The project capacity is 200 MW of solar power, plus a battery energy storage system (BESS) that provides 100 MW (200 MWh) of battery storage capacity. The BESS improves the supply of short-term, reliable, affordable electricity in ERCOT.
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Industry News
Bush Administration Exempts Plants from Installing Clean Air Components
LCG, August 29, 2003-Administration officials changed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rules regarding allowable construction on aging power plants, refineries, and factories.The EPA will now allow owners of older plants to rebuild and expand existing structures without meeting current air pollution standards. The 1977 Clean Air Act's "new source review" altered rules so that aging plants and factories could continue operation even if they did not meet tougher, newly applied pollution rules. However, the rule did not allow plants to undergo any expansion without meeting the new air quality restrictions.Now the EPA will allow older plants and factories to replace equipment and expand old facilities, just as long as the price of new construction is 20 percent or less of the cost to replace the plant's production system.Marianne L. Horinko, acting administrator while the EPA has no head, signed the rule on Wednesday. Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt will soon take office as head of the EPA.Many members of the U.S. Congress and other officials, such as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, have voiced outrage at the new rule, asserting that the nation's health will suffer as a result. The American Lung Association has adamantly opposed the new rule, saying the EPA should protect public health instead of supporting industry.The EPA insists that the changes will have little effect on air pollution and will simply allow old plants and refineries to become more energy efficient. EPA officials did not comment on whether or not the new rule would allow older, pollution limit-exempt plants to live longer industry lives.
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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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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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