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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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Mark D. Abkowitz has been appointed to a four-year term on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Bush. Abkowitz, the founder and chairman of Visual Risk Technologies (VRT), a risk management software firm headquartered in Nashville, is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. As a member of the 11-member Board, he will be principally reponsible for issues regarding the transportation of nuclear waste. Abkowitz is the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies and served as Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board Committee on Hazardous Materials Transport. The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was created by Congress to review the Department of Energy's activities relating to management and disposal of waste produced at civilian nuclear reactors.Edison Mission Energy (EME), an Edison International Company, announced that Thomas R. McDaniel, president and CEO of Edison Capital (EC), will become president and CEO of EME. He succeeds William J. Heller, who has resigned from these EME positions effective July 31. McDaniel will continue as CEO of EC. Ashraf T. Dajani, now senior vice president of EC, will become President and CEO of that company. McDaniel founded EC in 1987, in which he served as president and CEO since its inception. He joined South California Edison in 1971 in the engineering department, holding senior management positions in finance and operations. Dajani joined EC in 1995, having come from the Burns & Roe Group of Companies, where he ascended to the position of senior vice president and CEO. Heller, who had previously headed EME's London office, will he pursue opportunities in the energy and energy consulting business. Several vice presidents within Anadarko Petroleum Corp. are being rotated within the company. Rex Alman, now senior vice president for domestic operations, will become senior vice president, Algeria, and moves to Anadarko's office in Uxbridge, England. Tony Meyer, who has been head of Algeria operations, will now be vice president, international & Alaska operations. Meyer will transfer to Houston. He is succeeding Mark Pease, who will replace Alman, and will be responsible for domestic operations.James E. Bostic, Jr. has been elected as a new director on the board of Progress Energy, a diversified holding company that claims Carolina Power & Light (CP&L) and Florida Power as part of its portfolio. Bostic is executive vice president, Environmental, Government Affairs and Communications, for Georgia-Pacific Corp., of Atlanta, Georgia.
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