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LCG, November 11, 2025--NextEra Energy Resources, together with local officials, today celebrated the recent start of operations at the Appleseed Energy Center, a 200-MW solar facility located in Cass County, Indiana. NextEra Energy Resources expects the completion of the facility will improve grid reliability and support Northern Indiana Public Service Company, LLC’s (NIPSCO) plans to deliver reliable energy across northern Indiana.
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LCG, November 6, 2025--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, (X-energy) and the U.S. Office of Nuclear Energy today announced the start of confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to qualify X-energy’s proprietary TRISO-X fuel pebbles for commercial use in the Xe-100 Small Modular Reactor (SMR). (TRISO stands for TRi-structural ISOtropic). This is the first time that TRISO-X fuel pebbles will undergo irradiation testing in a U.S. lab, which is a critical step in meeting requirements set forth by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the commercial deployment of advanced reactors that will use the fuel.
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Industry News
Consumers Energy Bonds, Gas Program Approved
LCG, Oct. 26, 2000--The parent holding company for Consumers Energy Co. said yesterday that the Michigan Public Service Commission has approved securitization of $469 million in stranded electric utility costs and authorized expansion of its natural gas customer choice program.A third commission order authorizes accounting changes the company says will mitigate future increases in the cost of natural gas."These orders on electric and natural gas utility issues represent the final major steps in electric and natural gas restructuring for Consumers Energy and remove the last significant regulatoryuncertainties affecting Consumers Energy's gas and electric utility businesses," said William T. McCormick Jr., chairman and chief executive of CMS Energy Corp.With the commission action, Consumers Energy will be able to go ahead with the bond issue that will allow it to offset the earnings impact of a 5 percent residential electric rate cut that went into effect last June as a requirement of the Michigan electric restructuring law. The bonds are expected to come to market before the end of this year.The company will also be able to expand its gas customer choice program beginning next April 1, when 600,000 customers will be eligible to participate, with the total increasing to 900,000 in a year. All 1.6 million Consumers Energy gas customers will be eligible to select an alternate natural gas supplier beginning April 1, 2003. The order re-establishes a gas cost recovery mechanism the company says will allow it to recover increased natural gas commodity costs when it has to go into the wholesale market to purchase gas for delivery to customers.The accounting change will allow Consumers Energy to average in the cost of low cost gas it has on hand with the cost of more expensive purchased gas.
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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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