News
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
El Paso Says No "Round-Trip" Trades
LCG, May 20, 2002-Energy trader El Paso denied using the "round-trip" Enron memo trading strategy.When memos were released relating Enron to electricity trading strategies designed to manipulate the California market, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered over a hundred energy companies to state whether they participated in any of twelve strategies. Today El Paso Corporation, a natural gas pipeline and energy trading company, said that it did not participate in the "round-trip" trades, which involve selling electricity and then buying it back at the same price with the intent of increasing trading volumes.Meanwhile corporations such as CMS Energy are facing multiple shareholder lawsuits after admitting to such trading practices. Reliant Resources also admitted to using "round-trip" trading, and Dynegy Inc. is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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PLATO
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