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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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FPL Completes Virginia Power Plant Expansion

LCG, June 7, 2001--FPL Energy, a subsidiary of FPL Group of Florida, said this morning it has begun commercial operation of a 171 megawatt expansion at its Doswell power plant in Ashland, Virginia.

Doswell is a 708 megawatt combined-cycle, natural gas-fueled merchant plant. The 171 megawatt addition will operate in simple cycle as a peaking unit, FPL said.

"We're extremely pleased to be up and running our new peaking facility. We started this projectexactly one year ago and completed it right on schedule. The expanded capacity gives us greaterflexibility to meet the growing electrical power needs of our customers," said Manny Sanchez, FPL's Doswell plant manager.

FPL said the unit can be converted to a combined-cycle unit at a later time should market demandwarrant a future expansion.

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