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LCG, October 16, 2026--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on Thursday its new proposal to revise and accelerate its review of air quality effects for proposed natural gas projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The draft policy statement highlights revisions designed to (i) avoid unnecessary delays and duplicative analysis and (ii) deliver greater regulatory certainty and a streamlined path forward for project applicants.
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LCG, October 14, 2026--American Electric Power (AEP) today announced plans for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google, under which AEP will invest approximately $4 billion to advance a new 702-MW fuel cell generation project located near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Google will acquire power from Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, which is approximately 92 percent owned and controlled by AEP and 8 percent owned by funds advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners, LLP. AEP and its partners plan to start construction this year and to be fully operational by the end of 2028.
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Industry News
CPUC Upholds Non-utility Power Deals
LCG, Mar. 22, 2002--By a 3-2 vote, the California Public Utilities Commission yesterday allowed large energy customers who signed deals with non-utility energy providers and marketers through September 2001 to continue as "direct access" customers.The vote was supported by Jeff Brown, Henry Duque and Michael Peevey, Gov. Davis' latest appointee, after the Legislature had not yet produced legislation concerning "exit fees" that would be assessed on direct access customers. The exit fees, which Brown said would be the PUC's priority, would be a way to spread part of the costs associated with the state's power crisis among all customer groups, and would likely be assessed according to actual consumption. Brown said that if exit fee assessments are not sufficient to mitigate the additional cost impact of deregulation on small customers, he would vote to revoke contracts that were signed after July 1, 2001. A previous vote stopped new direct-access contracts signed after September 20th.Approximately 12 percent of the energy consumed within the service territories of PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. has been purchased by direct access customers, who include large businesses, municipalities, school districts, and the state university system.PUC President Loretta Lynch and Commissioner Carl Wood, who voted to end direct access, said that the Legislature's order last year that the PUC suspend direct access meant that the Commission should not try to interpret the law, but implement it. Doug Heller of the Foundation Taxpayer and Consumer Right said of the decision, "they're allowing the very same businesses that pushed for deregulation to escape the problems that resulted from deregulation."Lynch said the commission voted without a clear legal ability to instate an exit fee. Earl Bouse, who chairs the California Large Energy Consumers Association, and is an executive at Hanson Permanente, a cement company in Cupertino, said that an exit fee as has been proposed by state consultants could wipe out savings realized from direct-access. The fee proposed was 2.395 cents per kilowatt hour, to which Bouse responded, "then it's a question of whether we can continue to do business 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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