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MISO Long-Term Nodal Insights

LCG, November 12, 2025--LCG Consulting is excited to announce the release of the MISO 2034 Data Model, built from the latest MISO Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP). This powerful, nodal-level data model offers a forward-looking view of generation, transmission, and load forecasts across the MISO region—empowering energy professionals to explore the grid of the future with confidence.

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Xcel Energy and "Allies" Request Retirement Extension for Comanche Generating Station Unit 2

LCG, November 12, 2025--Xcel Energy, together with the Utility Consumer Advocate (UCA), Colorado Energy Office (CEO), and Trial Staff of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), filed a petition on November 10 requesting Commission approval to keep Comanche Generating Station Unit 2 available for up to one additional year after its currently planned retirement on December 31, 2025.

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California ISO Details Energy Producer Fines

LCG, July 9, 2002--The California Independent System Operator, which manages the state power grid, released details last week of fines it had assessed and payments that were witthheld for failure by power producers and utilities to deliver services.

The penalties, totaling over $250 million, date from the period June 1999 through June 2001, and were released now based on a request made by the Dow Jones News Service under the California Public Records Act. $122 million in fines were assessed for companies' failure to have reserve power available in the seven months up to June 2001, after their bids to have such power ready had been accepted. $95 million of that amount were assessed against Dynegy Electric Clearinghouse, Reliant Energy Services and Williams energy Services. Twelve specific generators were cited.

An additional $130 million in withheld payments applied to 19 energy providers during the earlier period prior to December 2000. The fines and withheld payments have already occurred, and do not constitute accusations of intent to manipulate the market, only findings by the ISO of companies' failure to deliver power. Dynegy spokesman David Byford said that Dynegy had not fully understood all of the tariffs and rules imposed by the ISO, and that it was not alone in its misunderstanding. "We were working with the ISO to have generation available to the greatest extent possible," he told the San Francisco Chronicle. Paula Hall-Collins, a Williams spokeswoman, said that while her company's generators "never refused to respond to a dispatch order," in some instances, "we were not able to fulfill the entire dispatch."

Total penalties against Pacific Gas and Electric Co., the utility, were nearly $11 million. Enron's wholesale energy marketing unit, which has been shown to have considered how to manipulate the state's energy market, had $991,000 in payments withheld.
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