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LCG, October 16, 2026--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on Thursday its new proposal to revise and accelerate its review of air quality effects for proposed natural gas projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The draft policy statement highlights revisions designed to (i) avoid unnecessary delays and duplicative analysis and (ii) deliver greater regulatory certainty and a streamlined path forward for project applicants.
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LCG, October 14, 2026--American Electric Power (AEP) today announced plans for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google, under which AEP will invest approximately $4 billion to advance a new 702-MW fuel cell generation project located near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Google will acquire power from Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, which is approximately 92 percent owned and controlled by AEP and 8 percent owned by funds advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners, LLP. AEP and its partners plan to start construction this year and to be fully operational by the end of 2028.
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Industry News
California Okays $400 Million for Power Purchases
LCG, Jan. 19, 2001California Gov. Gray Davis signed two electricity-related bills yesterday evening, one of which will revamp the board of the California Independent System Operator. The other rescinds the portion of the state's 1996 restructuring law that requires the state's investor-owned utilities to sell their non-nuclear power plants.Neither measure promised much help for Californians who endured a second day of rolling blackouts.But late yesterday the legislature approved a measure that would provide $400 million to the California Department of Water Resources so it can continue to purchase power for the state's two largest electric utilities, which have been impoverished by subsidizing customers.Davis said he would sign that bill today. "We're being asked to keep the lights on," he said. "If it requires some money, then money will be appropriated." State Senate President Pro-Tem John Burton, a San Francisco Democrat, introduced a bill yesterday that would create a public power authority to finance construction of new power plants, help modernize older plants and finance energy conservation programs.Burton said he was "taking aim at the astronomical energy prices in California."The state Senate also debated a measure, passed on Tuesday by the Assembly, that would allow the Department of Water Resources to enter into long-term contracts with power producers to purchase electricity at no more than 5.5 cents per kilowatt-hour.Some lawmakers questioned whether a state agency would be able to buy power that cheap. Power producers have said the soaring price of natural gas, the fuel of choice for thermal power plants in California, has made the rock-bottom price somewhere around 7 cents or 8 cents, even for a lot of power over a long period.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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