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
Former El Paso Trader Indicted
LCG, Dec. 5, 2002--An indictment has been brought against a former vice president of the El Paso Corporation for his allegedly false reporting of 48 gas trades to an industry publication, federal prosecutors in Houston announced yesterday.El Paso had stated that "inaccurate pricing information may have been provided to a trade publication," on Nov. 13, one day after Todd Geiger, who was engaged in gas trading, resigned from the company. According to Reuters, Mr. Geiger's lawyer, George Murphy, said that Geiger's arrest on Tuesday following a trip to Detroit "came as a tremendous shock to him, his family and to me. None of us knew this was coming." Geiger will plead not guilty, Murphy stated.Geiger, 38, traded through El Paso's Canada desk from Houston, where U.S. Attorney John Lewis believes he tried to manipulate the price index at the Sumas hub, situated on the border of British Columbia and Washington state.Prosecutors contend that on Nov. 30, 2001, Geiger discussed 48 non-existent gas trades with an editor of Inside FERC Gas Market Report, as if the trades were actual transactions conducted by the Merchant Energy Group at El Paso. The prices reported were used to produce a price index in the December edition of the publication. Monday, Geiger will be arraigned and charged with wire fraud and false reporting. Possible penalties that could be imposed should Geiger be found guilty are a fine of $500,000 for false reporting and up to five years in prison, and a fine of $250,000 and a maximum of five years in prison for wire fraud.An investigation is continuing into possible false reporting by employees at El Paso, to publications publishing price indexes for the gas and electricity markets. The company website indicates that El Paso is "cooperating fully with the appropriate federal authorities." Spokespersons would not comment further.
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