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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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LCG, October 23, 2025--Google announced today a first-of-its kind agreement to support a natural gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The 400-MW Broadwing Energy power project, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By agreeing to buy most of the power it generates, Google is helping get this new, baseload power source built and connected to the regional grid that supports our data centers.
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Industry News
Dynegy Settles Case Charging Manipulation of Gas Market
LCG, December, 2002--A $5 million settlement was reached in a case brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against Dynegy Inc. and a joint venture it co-owned with NRG Energy Inc., over what the federal agency said were fabricated natural gas trades.The fictional trades cited by the CFTC were allegedly submitted to a company or companies compiling natural gas price indexes in order to drive prices up. If the apparent attempt to manipulate the indexes had been successful, it could have led to higher power prices. The trades as reported indicated that West Coast Power, the joint venture, was a counter party. West Coast Power owns three power plants divested by San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co. Gas was supplied to the plants by Dynegy, which also marketed their output. NRG was responsible for their operation.A spokesman for the CFTC said that the agency's investigation would likely lead to further information that could affect other cases. According to a spokeswoman for NRG, Meredith Moore, Dynegy was making the $5 million payment, and did not communicate with NRG about the fact that a settlement was being approached. The settlement does not include any admission or denial of wrongdoing.The General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative and research arm, released a report yesterday that concluded that the ability of three federal agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the CFTC, and the Energy Information Administration, a unit of the Department of Energy, were not equipped to oversee competitive, open natural gas markets.The report's authors found that the FERC's legal authority has not been updated in recognition of the deregulation of natural gas markets, and that it "lacks assurances that wholesale natural gas prices are just and reasonable," the report said. The CFTC found that while CFTC is able to investigate trading practices, it lacks oversight of energy derivatives sold over-the-counter. The report noted some initiatives that have been undertaken by the FERC and EIA respectively to bolster their market oversight resources and to determine what information could be made available to encourage an open market.
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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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