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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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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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Industry News
Ercot Gears Up to Serve as State ISO
LCG, Aug. 29, 2000--The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, one of 10 regional units of an organization that provides industry oversight for the North American electric transmission system, is getting ready to be independent system operator of the power grid in the Lone Star State, where electric industry restructuring takes effect in 16 months.Beginning in January of 2002, householders and businesses in most Texas cities will be able to choose from whom they buy electricity. The Public Utility Commission of Texas has given control of the wholesale power market.Yesterday, Ercot announced that this fall it will begin construction of an 85,000-square foot nerve center for its operations in Taylor, Texas, northeast of the state capital at Austin. Between 160 and 170 employees will work at the facility.Construction is already underway at a 45,000-square foot back-up center in Austin, and from 35 to 40 workers there will stand by in case something goes wrong in Austin. All in all, Ercot plans to hire about 125 engineers, economists, technicians, analysts and office workers by the time competition starts in the Texas electric industry.Tom Noel, Ercots chief executive, said "We've got a full plate and the clock is ticking. We've established priorities and goals and we've got a timeline in place to assure that we'll be ready when we need to be." Building the buildings and hiring staff are among those priorities.Ercots service area, which includes 85 percent of the states transmission system, is administered by 10 control areas at present. Beginning next year when a "mock market" is instituted to get ready for the real thing, Ercot will become the Ercot Independent System Operator and the entire grid will be serviced out of the nerve center in Taylor.
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