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LCG, March 17, 2026--Oklo Inc. (Oklo) today announced that it has signed a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to support the design, construction, and operation of Oklo’s first reactor, the Aurora powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under DOE’s Reactor Pilot Program (RPP). The DOE Idaho Operations Office subsequently approved the Nuclear Safety Design Agreement (NSDA) for the fast-fission power plant, and Oklo immediately requested DOE commence review of its Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA).
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LCG, March 13, 2026--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) announced yesterday that leaders from the participating organizations voted unanimously to proceed as planned with expanding its regional transmission organization (RTO) services into the Western Interconnection. SPP sees the decision to proceed as planned as a strong signal of confidence as SPP and its partner utilities prepare for this key milestone, which will occur overnight between March 31 and April 1.
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Industry News
Britain's Ofgem Says Power Firms Have 'Rigged Market'
LCG, Aug. 13, 2001--The head of Britain's Office of Gas and Electricity Markets has warned that power companies have deliberately manipulated Neta, the new electricity trading market, to keepwholesale prices high, The Independent, an English newspaper, reported yesterday.Ofgem chief executive Callum McCarthy said that since the new energy trading arrangements were set up in March, he suspected that companies had knowingly abused the market. "There have been some instances where prices have unusually changed, which looks very hard to justify in normal market conditions," he said.McCarthy's complaint could be a ploy to gain additional clout for his agency. His comments come as the Department of Trade & Industry is due to decide whether to give Ofgem full powers to investigate such abuses, the paper noted.McCarthy said that price fixing is more difficult under the new trading arrangements that it was under the previous power pool, but he believes companies still withhold generating capacity to influence prices. Without the new powers he is seeking, "the market will be more open to manipulation, and quite simply electricity prices will be higher. Ofgem has an obligation to protect the interests of consumers," he said.Ofgem previously had included in its business licenses a "good behavior" clause under which companies could be put out of business for suspected abuse of market power. When British Energy Plc and AES Corp. of the U.S. refused to sign such contracts, the matter went to the British Competition Commission, which ruled last year there was no need for the clauses.McCarthy has been pushing to have the clauses restored, in one form or another, ever since.The Electricity Association, a trade organization in the UK, said in a letter to the Department of Trade & Industry that it was "strongly opposed" to Ofgem's proposals and that new abuse clauseswould deter new generators from entering the market.
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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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