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LCG, December 18, 2025--RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an American Electric Power (AEP) company, today announced their partnering to provide new wind power generation capacity online to meet Indiana’s growing electricity demand. The companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the total output from RWE’s 200 MW Prairie Creek wind project in Blackford County, Indiana. I&M will purchase electricity from the wind project, which will further diversify its portfolio and be consistent with its all-of-the-above strategy to secure generation for its rapidly growing electricity demand.
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LCG, December 16, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced today that it has renewed the operating licenses of Constellation LLC’s Clinton Unit 1 in Clinton, Illinois, and Dresden Units 2 and 3, near Morris, Illinois, for an additional 20 years beyond the current expiration dates. The combined capacity of these three, Illinois-based nuclear units is 2,925 MW, and the operating license extension will enable the units to generate carbon-free power through about 2050.
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Industry News
Japanese Ministry Supports Retail Deregulation of Power
LCG, Apr. 4, 2002--Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry today heard from an advisory panel that "full liberalization" of electric power markets was a goal that should be gradually implemented and embraced by regional utilities, beginning with granting all retail customers the ability to choose a supplier.The ministry, or METI, also made clear that unbundling of generation and transmission was not desirable for reasons of reliability, a stance that received approval from power industry representatives. Deregulation in North American and the European Union has been strongly linked to unbundling of services once provided almost entirely by vertically integrated utilities. Nonetheless, the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Nobuya Minami, said of the Federation of Electric Power Companies that its members "would like to discuss positively toward (the realization of) full liberalization."The creation of a marketplace for wholesale power trading open to both traditional utilities and independent power producers, and intended to broaden diversity of power sources and increase efficiency, is an area that will be discussed by the panel during regular meetings. There was reported to be no consensus as to whether there should be an obligatory power pooling system or two-way trading.While industrial and commercial users representing about 30% of power demand have been allowed to shop for a new supplier since March 2000, only 0.46% of such retail sales that could potentially be taking place through a new supplier are being realized. New competitors providing power pay significant fees to utilities for transmission and power reserves.
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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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