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LCG, September 16, 2025--Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) Board of Directors today announced that the Board approved a process to facilitate the connection of large users of electricity to the power grid while continuing to support energy needs for the entire region. SPP's new process is designed to incorporate transmission service, generation, load interconnection and other relevant reliability studies into a single framework that enables timely, informed decision-making and action.
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LCG, September 15, 2025--Longroad Energy announced today the financial close of 1000 Mile Solar, its 300 MWac (400 MWdc) solar project in Yoakum County, Texas. Longroad Energy finalized a long-term offtake agreement with Meta late last year in the form of an Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement, which includes a financial settlement arrangement for the entire energy output of 1000 Mile Solar.
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Industry News
Reporting to Energy Price Index Publications Falls Off
LCG, Nov. 15, 2002--Traders at a number of large energy companies have begun not to provide any price data concerning their transactions to industry publications, and in some cases are releasing the information themselves through their risk oversight units.The likely result of the change in reporting patterns is to make the price indexes less representative and reliable as a source of market information. William Hogan, a professor at Harvard University who serves as director of research for the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, told the Wall Street Journal, "The tradeoff here is between easy access to imperfect information and difficult access to better information. It's not completely obvious to me which one is beter and which is worse. There is a real danger here that everybody decides to clam up."Regional differences in the numbers of deals taking place will affect some indexes more than others, where the published indexes are concerned. One of the most widely known set of indexes is published by Platts, a company owned by McGraw-Hill Cos. Both electricity and natural gas, for which trading volumes are greater, have experienced changes. Constellation Energy Group, El Paso, Reliant Resources Inc., PPL Corp., Williams and CMS are no longer reporting prices in any way.While some companies have disclosed that false prices were submitted to index publishers by their traders and are now cooperating with federal authorities, others who may fear being subpoenaed appear to have decided it is less risky to simply not report should they make an error in reporting. "If you start losing the price transparency, it creates advantages for big companies and probably leads to higher prices," said Phili Verleger Jr., an economic consultant in Newport Beach, Calif.
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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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