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LCG, October 6, 2026--Google and Constellation Energy today announced a long-term strategic clean energy collaboration to bring 890 MW of new, reliable, carbon-free nuclear capacity onto the PJM Interconnection grid to meet growing demand and increase grid reliability. The first uprate is expected to be delivered by 2028.
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LCG, October 5, 2026--The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) today announced a conditional loan commitment of up to $4.2 billion to finance nuclear uprates and modernization across Vistra’s nuclear fleet in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The projects are expected to preserve nearly 4 GW of carbon-free, baseload power and add 433 MW of new nuclear capacity that will support the growing electricity demand across the PJM region.
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Industry News
Calpine Begins Building Another California Plant;On its Way to Owning 12,000 In-state Megawatts
LCG, Aug. 24, 2001--Calpine Corp. said yesterday that is has begun construction on its 750 megawatt Pastoria Energy Center 30 miles south of Bakersfield, Calif. at the southern end of California's Central Valley.Calpine said the natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle facility will be complete by summer of 2003. As many as 800 workers will build the plant, which will have an operating staff of between 30 and 35 employees."Pastoria is the latest in a series of Calpine projects intended to provide near- and long-term solutions to the power crunch in the West," Jake Rudisill, a Calpine senior vice president. "We've achieved several milestones this summer and we are extremely pleased to be able to point to yet another."Calpine pointed to the commissioning in July of the Sutter Energy Center near Sacramento and the Los Medanos Energy Center as evidence that its projects are bearing fruit. Los Medanos is the first new major power plant built in the San Francisco Bay Area in more than 30 years.The company said it has 2,400 megawatts of generation on-line in California, 2.030 megawatts under construction and almost 3,300 megawatts under development. Calpine says it will have in operation 12,000 megawatts of generation in California.
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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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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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