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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
Bush Won't Extend California Power Order
LCG, Feb. 6, 2001President Bush will allow to expire today a federal order originally put into effect by the Clinton administration's Energy Secretary Bill Richardson that required wholesale electricity firms to sell power to California's nearly bankrupt utilities, White House press secretary Ari Fleisher said yesterday.Asked about Richardson's order, which the Bush administration had extended on January 23, Fleisher said "It shall expire tomorrow."When Bush extended the order two weeks ago, it was made clear through incoming Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham that the emergency order would not be extended again.A spokeswoman for the California Independent System Operator said this morning that the agency has been making preparations ahead of the order's expiration, with the assumption that it would not be extended, but would not say what those preparations might be. Cal-ISO declared it 22nd straight "Stage 3" power emergency for today, meaning it's scraping the bottom of the electricity supply barrel even with the federal order in place.Cal-ISO, which manages the three-quarters of California's transmission grid owned by the state's regulated utilities, must get power from those utilities or independent power producers in sufficient quantities to meet demand or the grid will collapse. If sufficient power cannot be found, utilities will be ordered to cease delivering electricity to their customers, and blackouts will ensue.Yesterday, Fleisher said the order has met with stiff opposition from utilities and officials of other Western states, particularly in Oregon and Washington where a drought has caused electricity supply problems and California's demands for power have only made things worse.The Tacoma, Wash., municipal utility last week imposed a 50 percent rate increase on its customers because of high wholesale electricity prices.Elsewhere in the nation's capital, Rep. Joe Barton, who heads the House Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, took a shot at California for expecting low electric rates without building new power plants. "We want to work with California, but California has to work with the rest of the country," the Texas Republican said in a speech to an American Public Power Association conference.Barton said California has an "obligation" to modify its overly strict environmental laws that prevent the rapid construction of new generating and transmission facilities.
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