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LCG, November 19, 2025--Oklo Inc. and Siemens Energy announced today that the parties have signed a binding contract for the design and delivery of the power conversion system for Oklo’s Aurora-INL (Idaho National Laboratory) nuclear small modular reactor (SMR). The agreement authorizes Siemens Energy to begin engineering and design work to expedite procurement of long-lead components and to initiate the manufacturing process for the power conversion system. Oklo’s expertise in advanced fission technology will be combined with Siemens Energy’s extensive industry experience with steam turbine and generator systems, with the ultimate goal of generating carbon-free, reliable electricity.
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LCG, November 19, 2025--NERC yesterday released its 2025–2026 Winter Reliability Assessment (WRA), which concludes "much of North America is again at an elevated risk of having insufficient energy supplies to meet demand in extreme operating conditions." The WRA does state that resources are adequate for normal winter peak demand, but extended, wide-area cold snaps will be challenging.
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Industry News
Georgia Power's IRP Approved with 1,600 MW of New Renewable Generation
LCG, July 29, 2016--Georgia Power Company, a Southern Company subsidiary, received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) for its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) that includes the addition of 1,600 MW of renewable energy to its portfolio by 2021. The PSC also approved a revision of the Company's request to pass on and capitalize the costs of investigation and licensing costs for potential new nuclear units and to recover these costs from ratepayers in the future. Both proposals were approved by a 4-1 vote.
The new renewable energy portfolio will emphasize solar power, with the potential for up to 300 MW of wind power.
The approval of the nuclear proposal will allow Georgia Power to incur $99 million in costs for site suitability and Combined Operating License (COL) application development work for a nuclear plant in Stewart County in southwest Georgia. The motion includes the following conditions: the amount recorded for these activities will not exceed $99 million through the second quarter of 2019; Georgia Power will file a status report in its 2019 IRP; if the PSC determines in 2019 that any efforts to obtain a COL should be suspended or terminated, any cost incurred to that point in time will be deferred for recovery in a future rate case; the Company will file annual reports with the PSC updating the status of the investigation and development of the COL.
Georgia Power already operates two nuclear facilities: Hatch and Vogtle, both with two existing generating units. Plant Vogtle was constructed with the option to expand, and units 3 and 4 are now under construction, with operations expected in 2019 and 2020. Vogtle units 3 and 4 will be the first new nuclear units built in the U.S. in the last three decades and will be the first in the industry to use the Westinghouse AP1000 advanced pressurized water reactor technology.
A commissioner stated, "We've seen what happens when decisions are deferred, infrastructure crumbles and power is curtailed. We can debate the wisdom of the coal exodus but it must be replaced with something that is cost effective. Nuclear power remains among the lowest cost energy source, with a 92 percent reliability rating and it is carbon free. Nuclear deployment takes time and I refuse to sit on my hands."
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