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
FERC Approves Most of PJM's Proposed Rules for ITCs
LCG, March 18, 2003-FERC agreed with most of the rules proposed by PJM Interconnection regarding the establishment of independent transmission companies.PJM Interconnection, a non-stock transmission operator in the Mid-Atlantic states, gave the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a list of proposed standards for potential independent transmission companies (ITC) within PJM's service area. Some consumer protection groups in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland opposed PJM's proposed standards, asserting that ITC's would have too much autonomy.FERC found the proposed rules acceptable for the most part but decided that PJM should not yield reliability and planning authority to ITC's.While FERC would not discuss possible rates to be paid to ITC's, the commission did mention that ITC's are likely to be addressed again when standard market design plans are finalized and released. FERC released a 32-page order late Friday. In the document FERC limited PJM's region to one tariff, which allows an ITC to have a separate schedule but not its own tariff. PJM will also set the congestion pricing mechanism, while an ITC can by itself apply targeted transmission investment, outage management, and new technologies.FERC also stated in the order that PJM will remain the regional reliability authority for any ITC and will provide ancillary services outside of scheduling, dispatching, and system control. PJM will also maintain authority over regional planning and will be able to prevent maintenance outages if the need arises. Any ITC would be responsible for maintenance and outage scheduling, however, in addition to managing transmission facility configuration.Members of a coalition including Commonwealth Edison Co. and American Electric Power Co. have been considering joining PJM as an ITC to be called GridCo East.
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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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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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