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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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Industry News
CPUC Approves NRG Energy's 500-MW Carlsbad Energy Center
LCG, May 28, 2015-The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved late last week the SDG&E Power Purchase and Tolling Agreement for the NRG Energy, Inc. Carlsbad Energy Center, a proposed 500-MW, natural gas-fired peaking facility. The project is expected to begin operations when the adjacent Encina Power Station is retired at the end of 2017.
The Carlsbad Energy Center will include five units to increase reliability in southern California given the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in 2013 and the planned retirement of the Encina Generating Station due to California's Once-Through-Cooling ban. The proposed electric generating facility will be located in the City of Carlsbad in San Diego County.
The president of NRG Energy's West region stated, "We appreciate the CPUC's vote of confidence that the Carlsbad Energy Center is the best approach to have the appropriate, flexible capacity online by 2017 to enable California to reach its greenhouse gas reduction goals through building additional renewable generation while preserving the reliability of the grid. We appreciate the CAISO's recognition of the project's contribution to the grid and SDG&E's continued support of the project and the benefits it will bring to all of southern California. And we appreciate the City of Carlsbad's focus on the environmental benefits of the project to build a smaller, more efficient plant that complies with the State's once-through-cooling policies, and enables the demolition of Encina and development of the underlying coastline property."
The original application for certification was filed with the California Energy Commission (CEC) in September 2007.
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