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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
San Jose Council Rejects Metcalf Energy Center
LCG, Nov. 29, 2000--The city council of the community that bills itself as the "Capital of Silicon Valley" voted early this morning to reject a 600 megawatt power plant proposed for a patch of land currently zoned partly for agriculture and partly for industry.San Jose, Calif., Mayor Ron Gonzales doesn't believe there is a power shortage in Silicon Valley. "We want to understand what the needs are, and the alternatives, and potential other sites," he told a news conference yesterday before the Council meeting.Apparently Mayor Gonzales has forgot the blackouts that hit close to 100,000 electricity customers in the South San Francisco Bay Area last June, when insufficient power caused a large substation to trip off line.Calpine Corp., the big independent power producer that makes its home in San Jose, was unable to sway the populist local politicians and will have to rely on state regulators overruling objections to its proposed Metcalf Energy Center. The company was baffled by the "not in my back yard" attitude of its home town.Lisa Poelle, a Calpine spokeswoman, said "If we don't get the opportunity to build this project, we'll be minus 600 megawatts of electricity in this town and, as the high-tech capital of the world, that's embarrassing." She said this morning's rejection was "just a bump in the road."Among the biggest opponents of the Metcalf plant is Cisco Systems Inc., the number one computer networking company. Cisco is San Jose's largest employer and is building a 20,000-worker factory -- high-tech factories are called "campuses" -- on the same industrial-agricultural land and thinks the power it needs can be generated in Argentina.Cisco scratched around and found some "experts" who would say the power plant isn't needed. It would be an eyesore, the "consultants" said, and it would pollute the whole area.
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