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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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California Muni Adds Capacity to Keep Rates Low
LCG, Dec. 14, 2000--Not everybody in California is suffering from the insufficiency of electric power in the state. The City of Redding plans to add 54 megawatts of generation to the city power plant, boosting its capacity by 50 percent, and paying for the improvement with "other people's money."The Redding Record-Searchlight, a local daily, reported yesterday that the City Council had unanimously approved the $41 million addition to the municipal power plant.The city's electric department will install a new 43 megawatt natural gas-fueled turbine and a heat recovery steam generator that will use the turbine's exhaust to boost production from an existing steam turbine by 11 megawatts.Throughout California's six-month power shortage, Redding and other municipalities that own generation have been called upon by the California Independent System Operator to run their plants full time to provide the thin margin of reserve power that has kept the state's electric transmission system from collapsing.Within limitations imposed by a series of price caps, much of that power went for top dollar on the state's spot market. Redding officials say that at least two-thirds of the cost of the plant addition will be paid for by revenues generated by the power sales."We're essentially going to build this plant with other people's money," Redding Vice Mayor Pat Kight told the Record-Searchlight. "It's not costing the city anything and it guarantees low rates," he said. "If we end up selling more power with this plant, that's just a plus."When California restructured its electric industry, the City of Redding was faced with staggering potential stranded costs exceeding $200 million -- a lot of money for a mid-sized town located 200 miles north of San Francisco.To pay down the debt, the city imposed a 23 percent rate hike on its citizens, boosting their electricity costs from about 8 cents per kilowatt-hour to around 10 cents. That surcharge was to last until 2004, but the power sales that will pay for the plant addition have also enabled Redding to accelerate the paydown of its indebtedness. The surcharge is now scheduled to vanish in 2002, two years ahead of schedule.
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