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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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EPA Proposes Carbon Standard to Limit New Coal-fired Power Generation
LCG, March 28, 2012--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants. The EPA stated that the rule creates a path forward for new technologies to be deployed at future facilities that will allow companies to burn coal, while emitting less carbon pollution.
The EPA stated that the rulemaking proposed only concerns future generating units and does not apply to existing units or units that will start construction over the next 12 months.
The EPA's new rules for new power plants will apply to all fossil fuel generators greater than 25 MW and will limit carbon dioxide emissions to 1,000 pounds per megawatt hour generated. With that limit, new coal-fired facilities will need to capture and sequester a portion of emissions. Current carbon capture technologies are not readily available on a commercial scale and are expensive.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said, "Right now there are no limits to the amount of carbon pollution that future power plants will be able to put into our skies ? and the health and economic threats of a changing climate continue to grow. We?re putting in place a standard that relies on the use of clean, American made technology to tackle a challenge that we can?t leave to our kids and grandkids."
As a direct result of a Supreme Court ruling in 2007, EPA in 2009 determined that greenhouse gas pollution threatens Americans? health and welfare by leading to long lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment.
The EPA stated that its proposed standards can be met by a range of power facilities burning different fossil fuels, including natural gas technologies, as well as coal with technologies to reduce carbon emissions. Even without today?s action, the EPA states that the power plants that power plants to be built in the future would already comply with the standard. Thus the EPA does not project an additional cost for industry to comply with this standard.
EPA's comment period for the rule will be open for 60 days following publication in the Federal Register.
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