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Energy Vault and Jupiter Power Announce New Agreement for Battery Energy Storage System in Texas

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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NuScale Power Achieves Standard Design Approval from NRC for 77 MW SMR

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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Santee Cooper's Cross Unit 3 Approaches Testing and Commercial Operations

LCG, October 18, 2006--Santee Cooper plans to initiate testing next week of its new, 600-MW electric generating unit at the Cross Generating Station, which is located about 50 miles northwest of Charleston, South Carolina. Commercial operations are expected to commence on January 1, 2007.

The new unit, Unit 3, is a coal-fired unit like the existing two units that have a combined capacity of 1,160 MW. Another 600-MW unit is under construction and is scheduled to commence operations in January of 2009. The estimated costs of Unit 3 and Unit 4 are $675 million and $755 million, respectively. Santee Cooper is also planning another coal-fired plant (Pee Dee Unit 1), which is scheduled for operations in 2012.

The new coal plants represent a return to building coal-fired electric generating stations rather than gas-fired, combined cycle units in the Southeast. With relatively rapid customer growth rates and a long-term perspective, Southeast utilities are planning to build a number of new coal plants. For example, Florida Power and Light (FPL) recently announced plans to construct the Glades Power Park, a coal-fired electric generating facility to be sited in Glade County, Florida. The proposed plant would consist of two units, each with a capacity of 980-MW. The schedule calls for Unit 1 to be operational in 2012 and Unit 2 in 2013.

A group of community-owned, power entities recently filed for a certificate of need determination with the Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) in order to construct an 800-MW, coal-fired power plant in Taylor County, Florida. The project, named the Taylor Energy Center, is estimated to cost $1.5 billion and scheduled to be completed in 2012.

Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc. also plans to build a 750-MW coal-fired plant in Putnam County, Florida that is scheduled to commence operations on May 1, 2012. The power from the new plant is needed to meet the growing electric load of Seminole's ten member cooperatives.

Furthermore, there is the joint development project between Southern Company and Orlando Utilities Commission to construct a new, advanced integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facility at the Stanton Energy Center.
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