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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
Kansas Passes Power Plant Tax Break Legislation
LCG, May 7, 2001Forty-nine states are learning the basic economics law of supply and demand from California, and Kansas is no exception. The state House of Representatives passed two bills Saturday providing incentives for companies to build new power plants and transmission facilities.The measures passed in the 125-member House by margins of around 100 votes. On Friday, the state Senate has approved the initiatives 40-0. The measures are on their way to Gov. Bill Graves, who is expected to sign them.One of the bills gives long-term tax breaks to both Kansas regulated utilities and independent power producers for building new power plants. Utilities would receive 10-year property tax breaks and independent power producers' new plants would be exempt from property taxes for 12 years.Supporters of the legislation said the incentives, and the new generation they will encourage, are badly needed. "All of our utilities say that around the year 2005 Kansas will be short of power" said Republican state Rep. Tom Sloan, vice chairman of the Kansas House Utilities Committee.State Rep. Carl Holmes, who as chairman of the House Utilities Committee was the driving force behind the bills along with his Senate counterpart, Stan Clark. Both Republicans said seven companies are considering plants in Kansas."They are waiting on this bill," Holmes said. "This doesn't guarantee power plants will be built here, but it puts us in the running."Among companies interested in building new generation in Kansas are Duke Energy Corp. of North Carolina, UtiliCorp United Inc. of Missouri and the home-state Sunflower Electric Power Cooperative.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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