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LCG, October 23, 2025--Google announced today a first-of-its kind agreement to support a natural gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The 400-MW Broadwing Energy power project, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By agreeing to buy most of the power it generates, Google is helping get this new, baseload power source built and connected to the regional grid that supports our data centers.
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LCG, October 21, 2025--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for their Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project located in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits allow ExxonMobil to convert three existing test wells permitted by the state to carbon dioxide (CO2) storage injection wells for long-term storage.
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Industry News
Missouri Said Close to Electric Dereg Law
LCG, March 19, 2001Legislation pending in House and Senate committees of the Missouri General Assembly, which would allow the state's investor-owned electric utilities to put their generating assets in unregulated subsidiaries, is being pushed by AmerenUE, the former Union Electric Co., according to the St. Louis post Dispatch.The bill also has strong support from large industrial customers such as Boeing Co., Anheuser-Busch Cos., DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors because it would allow them to purchase power from alternative suppliers at lower rates than they are now paying.The paper said the bills stop short of a full open electric market, but would allow the utilities to sell the power generated in their Missouri power plants into the wholesale market.The legislation has drawn sharp criticism from Martha Hogerty, head of the Office of Public Counsel, a Missouri consumer watchdog agency. Calling the measure "the most irresponsible thing I have ever seen," she said "This bill would take all of our good, cheap energy dedicated to our Missouri customers and put it out on the open market."Gary L. Rainwater, president of the Ameren Corp. subsidiary that would run the former Union Electric plants, said the measure would permit his company to combine Ameren's 8,000 megawatts of Missouri generation with its 4,000 megawatts of Illinois generation that once belonged to Central Illinois public Service Co., another Ameren unit.Illinois is farther along in electric deregulation and AmerenCIPS has already moved its power plants into Rainwater's Ameren Energy Resources. He said the plan could mean lower rates and would give Ameren and other investors an incentive to build new generation."What's fundamentally changed in our business is that we can no longer rely on being able to buy cheaply on the wholesale market" to fill the gap between supply and consumer demand, Rainwater said.Hogerty also objects to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission taking over much of the regulatory control. She said the Missouri Public Service Commission has a long history of overseeing the utilities and understands their costs and needs.She feels that turning over the utilities' generating systems to federal oversight will ensure that rates for residential customers will rise.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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