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LCG, April 2, 2026--Southwest Power Pool (SPP) today announced that the expansion of its service territory into the Western Interconnection has been a success. The milestone makes SPP the first regional transmission organization (RTO) with services spanning the Eastern and Western Interconnections. Its member organizations, which cover all or part of 17 states, can now benefit from a more operationally and geographically diverse integrated system.
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LCG, March 31, 2026--Holtec International yesterday announced that it successfully completed a milestone test necessary to return Holtec's Palisades Nuclear Generating Station to service. The 805-MW pressurized water reactor (PWR) is located in Michigan and was shut down by Entergy in May 2022. Holtec acquired the facility in June 2022 and has pursued a path to return the plant to service.
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Industry News
Washington State Utilities Hope for Refunds Based on Enron Memos
LCG, May 14, 2002--The trading strategies used by Enron's Western traders and the associated discussion in Dec. 2000 legal memos form the basis for a planned legal brief by Washington utilities seeking refunds for expensive power purchases.Seattle City Light and Tacoma Public Utilities will seek to recover $348 million paid for short-term power purchases from Enron and other power marketers. The utilities will again argue before an administrative law that the sales did not represent "just and reasonable" criteria enforceable by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Their arguments were rejected last fall, but may be seen in a different light since Enron's corporate attorneys' description of methods by which the company gamed the market in late 2000 and early 2001 have come into focus.Perhaps ironically, the FERC has sent letters to Seattle City Light among other public utilities as well as large traders, in order to determine whether their trading activities were designed to take advantage of the situation in California, where flexible price caps were placed on in-state generation. If refunds are found to be justified, the recovery of actual funds may be very difficult, due to the number of creditors interested in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. For the moment, Seattle City Light's rate increases following the power market crisis of the past year amount to 60 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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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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