News
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
Court Ruling May Boost TXU Stranded Cost Recovery
LCG, Aug. 31, 2000A partial ruling yesterday by a Texas court could nearly quadruple the amount of stranded costs eligible for securitization by TXU Electric Co., the company said in a news release. TXU Electric is an operating subsidiary of TXU Corp.The partial ruling by the Travis County Texas District Court reversed a portion of an order by the Public Utility Commission of Texas that used asset life for purposes of setting the value of strandable assets. That would essentially be depreciated book value based on straight-line depreciation over the life of an asset, which can be as long as 40 years.The court believed that such valuation did not conform to securitization provision of the Texas electric industry restructuring law enacted last year, saying a present value period based upon stranded cost and regulatory asset recovery periods authorized under the restructuring statute should have been used.TXU was careful to point out that the court did not set the valuation period to be used, but said that if the PUCT should use the alternative 12-year discounting period contained in its financing order, the amount to be securitized by TXU Electric would increase to $1.3 billion from $363 million.The District Court indicated that it intended to enter a written final judgment September 5. TXU Electric said it will probably appeal the District Court's final judgment directly to the Texas Supreme Court.
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