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LCG, May 14, 2026--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it is proposing a rule to revise wastewater limits, known as effluent limitations guidelines (ELG), for steam electric power plants that will help improve grid reliability and lower electricity prices while continuing to support clean and safe water resources. If finalized, the EPA's proposal is estimated to reduce electricity generation costs by as much as $1.1 billion annually, which could provide cost-savings to American consumers.
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LCG, May 14, 2026--The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of eight companies to support the near-term deployment of advanced light-water small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The DOE states that awardees will collectively receive more than $94 million in Federal cost-shared funding to spur additional Gen III+ SMR deployments by addressing key gaps that have hindered the domestic nuclear industry in licensing, supply chain, and site preparation.
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Industry News
Report on Blackout Faults FirstEnergy
LCG, Apr. 6, 2004--A report completed by a joint U.S.-Canadian group on the causes of the August blackout that affected a large region in the U.S. and part of Canada found that FirstEnergy's inadequate response to initial outages was largely responsible for the scale of the events that followed.The report also listed a number of specific operational and maintenance measures that it said should be implemented in order to enhance reliability, and found that not many changes had yet been made since the blackout. The authors noted that there is currently no widespread standard for trimming trees near high-voltage transmission lines, despite the fact that local utilities routinely monitor trees near less critical distribution lines, based on rules established by state commissions. Disagreement among utilities on the issue of what maintenance near high-voltage lines might entail has discouraged the North American Electric Reliability Council from issuing standards.In addition to the conclusion that load shedding by FirstEnergy in the amount of 1,500 megawatts might have headed off the blackout, the report also drew attention to shortcomings on the part of reliability councils and other grid monitors. FirstEnergy's senior vice president of energy delivery, Chuck Jones, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying "We don't think that's factually correct," in response to the report's assertion that the company failed to conduct voltage analyses to a degree that could have made its service area less vulnerable to widespread failures.
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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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