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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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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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Industry News
PG&E Could Delay California Power Bonds
LCG, Aug. 16, 2001--With the California Public Utilities Commission set to decide a week from today on how to parcel out the proceeds from ratepayers' electric bills, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has it will go to court to endure it gets its fair share.Such a move by PG&E could delay the state's plans to issue $12.5 billion in bonds needed to repay the state for about $7 billion in power purchases already made and to fund future purchases.State Treasurer Phil Angelides said a court test would likely cause the bond sale to miss an October 31 deadline.It wouldn't be the first deadline the borrowing has missed. Early this year, Gov. Gray Davis "promised" that the bonds would be issued and the state treasury repaid for emergency power purchases not later than June 30.PG&E said last week in a legal filing that any attempt "to divert revenues the utilities are lawfully entitled to recover for their generation-related costs is unlawful and will be challenged in court." The company was talking about protections under the U.S. Constitution against the "taking" of property.Under California's failed electric deregulation law, the state's three investor-owned utilities were forced to pay market prices for wholesale power which they retailed to their customers at much lower rates frozen at 1997 levels -- less 10 percent for residential and small commercial customers.Next Thursday, the CPUC is scheduled to decide how much of the revenues from customers electric bills should go to the state to back the bond issue and how much to the utilities to pay for past and ongoing power purchases.PG&E spokesman Ron Low said the California Department of Water Resources, the agency responsible for purchasing power on behalf of the cash-strapped utilities, has been vague in stating its revenue requirements, and the very vagueness makes the utility uneasy."Are they going to try to reach into our pockets?" Low asked recently. "These are the kinds of questions we have been trying to get the Department of Water Resources to answer."California has already borrowed $4.3 billion in the form of a "bridge loan" against proceeds from the bond sale. If the bond sale doesn't come off by the October 31 deadline, the interest on the bridge loan jumps from 4.14 percent to 7 percent.
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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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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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