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Southwest Power Pool Board Approves New Process to Accelerate High Impact Large Load Connections

LCG, September 16, 2025--Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) Board of Directors today announced that the Board approved a process to facilitate the connection of large users of electricity to the power grid while continuing to support energy needs for the entire region. SPP's new process is designed to incorporate transmission service, generation, load interconnection and other relevant reliability studies into a single framework that enables timely, informed decision-making and action.

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Longroad Energy Announces Financial Close of 1000 Mile Solar Project in Texas

LCG, September 15, 2025--Longroad Energy announced today the financial close of 1000 Mile Solar, its 300 MWac (400 MWdc) solar project in Yoakum County, Texas. Longroad Energy finalized a long-term offtake agreement with Meta late last year in the form of an Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement, which includes a financial settlement arrangement for the entire energy output of 1000 Mile Solar.

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Tampa Electric Affiliate Puts Plant On-line in Virginia

LCG, Aug. 15, 2000--An affiliate of Tampa Electric Co. threw a party yesterday morning to dedicate about half of a power plant in Accomack County, Virginia, which is across the Chesapeake Bay from the rest of the state.

The 312 megawatt Commonwealth Chesapeake Power Station is being built by Teco Power Services Corp. in two phases, and yesterdays ceremony celebrated commercial operation of the 135 megawatt first phase. The second phase is scheduled to begin production next June.

The plant was dedicated by Sen. John Warner, a Virginia Republican, and former Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, whose company, Mosbacher Energy Co. is affiliated with the plants developer.

Power from the plant is sold into the PJM wholesale market, the largest centrally dispatched electricity control area in North America.

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