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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
EC Expected to Okay EdF Deal for Hidrocantabrico
LCG, Sept. 18, 2001--The European Commission is expected tomorrow to approve Electricit de France's indirect acquisition of Spanish utility Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico after the state-owned French monopoly dropped its decades-old resistance to building more transmission lines between France and Spain, the Financial Times reported this morning.Ratification of the deal would be a victory for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who has criticized France for dragging its feet on liberalization of its electricity market. Spanish officials hailed the agreement as a milestone towards the creation of a single European energy market, the paper said.Heretofore, Spain has been cut off from the rest of Europe because there is only one transmission line across the Pyrenees, the rugged mountain range separating the Iberian Peninsula from France. That interconnection is capable of carrying only 1,100 megawatts of power.The effect of that limitation has been to prevent the importation of power in times of need and also to shield Spanish utilities from the possibility of competition from cheaper foreign power. The result has been higher than necessary Spanish electricity rates, officials say.EdF has agreed to expand the interconnection capacity between France and Spain by up to 4,000MW over a period of five to 10 years, and in exchange, the Spanish government has withdrawn its objections to EdF's acquisition of a controlling stake in Hidrocantabrico through its partially-owned affiliate Energie Baden-Wurrtemberg of Germany."The agreement opens the Spanish electricity market to foreign suppliers," Luis de Guindos, the Spanish economy ministry's secretary for competition policy, said yesterday. "This is positive from a competition point of view and also from the point of view of securing alternative suppliers."Hidrocantabrico is the smallest of Spain's four electric utilities and produces about 8 percent of the country's power. In recent years, it has been the target of takeover bids by several Spanish, European and U.S. companies, but each such overture has foundered on objections by Spain's competition authorities.
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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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