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Energy Vault and Jupiter Power Announce New Agreement for Battery Energy Storage System in Texas

LCG, June 4, 2025--Energy Vault Holdings Inc. (Energy Vault) and Jupiter Power (Jupiter) today announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of an additional battery energy storage system (BESS) at a Jupiter site in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region. The initial BESS project, located near Fort Stockton, Texas, was completed in July 2024, with a storage capacity 100 MW/200 MWh. The new BESS project will add another 100 MW/200 MWh of capacity. Construction has commenced, and the project is expected to achieve commercial operations by the end of this summer.

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NuScale Power Achieves Standard Design Approval from NRC for 77 MW SMR

LCG, May 30, 2025--NuScale Power Corporation (NuScale), a leading provider of advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology, yesterday announced that it has received design approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its uprated 77 MW power modules. NuScale states that it remains the only SMR technology company with design approval from the NRC, and the company remains on track for deployment by 2030, with 50- and 77-MW SMR options.

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ISO Board Drops Spot Market Price Cap to $250

LCG, Aug. 2, 2000--In a rancorous meeting marked by accusations of price gouging by electricity generators and poor forward planning by utilities, the oversight board of the California Independent System Operator yesterday voted to lower the price cap on power sold in the spot wholesale electricity market from $500 to $250 per megawatt-hour.

The lower price takes effect next Monday.

The limit had been reduced from $750 to $500 only weeks ago, in response to high prices being passed through to customers of San Diego Gas & Electric Co., which no longer operates under the price freeze imposed by the California electric restructuring law.

Yesterday was the third time the oversight board had considered dropping the price cap to $250. On two previous occasions the board, after long meetings, sided with power producers who said that artificially low power prices would discourage development of new power plants in the state.

In news reported yesterday Duke Energy Corp., a North Carolina company that operates power plants in California, said it would provide state utilities with wholesale power at $50 per megawatt-hour under long-term contracts, if the law permitted it to do so.

Californias three big utilities are prevented from entering into such contracts by the electric deregulation law, which mandates that they buy all of their power through the California Power Exchange, a sister organization to Cal-ISO.

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