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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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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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Industry News
Bonneville Sees 250 Percent Rate Hikes
LCG, April 10, 2001Bonneville Power Administration said yesterday that it would have to raise wholesale electricity rates by 250 percent on October 1 unless its customers retail utilities in the Northwest and large industrial customers cut back energy use within the next 60 days.That is a lot worse than the picture Bonneville painted three months ago, when it said wholesale rates could rise 60 percent on average for the next five years."Recent developments in the market now require a first-year increase of 250 percent or more, absent vigorous efforts to reduce demand," said Steve Wright, acting BPA administrator. "This could double the retail rates of many Northwest consumers."A long-running drought is leaving the region short of electricity this summer and winter, which could pose reliability problems but, longer term, an underlying energy shortage threatens high costs and difficulties in meeting demand for several years until new power plants, power lines and conservation can be brought on line, Bonneville said.The Eugene Register-Guard said on Sunday that flow in the Columbia River looks more like it does in midsummer that what should be the start of the annual spring runoff. The paper said power production at dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers has been cut back by about a third.But the drought isn't the entire story. The Northwest is suffering from the same basic problem that caused California's electric mess an insufficiency of supply in the face of increasing demand. To make matters worse, about a year ago Bonneville signed contracts to sell more power than it has. That forced the federal agency into the volatile wholesale market at a cost of more than $2 billion.Last May, Bonneville signed contracts to provide utilities, aluminum companies and others with about 3,000 megawatts more power than the agency could lay its hands on even when the rivers were flowing at their normal rates. Officials at Bonneville assumed they could buy inexpensive power on the open market.Bonneville spokesman Mike Hansen said "people were under the impression that we'd be able to hold rates down. No one predicted what now has happened."
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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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