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LCG, December 18, 2025--RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an American Electric Power (AEP) company, today announced their partnering to provide new wind power generation capacity online to meet Indiana’s growing electricity demand. The companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the total output from RWE’s 200 MW Prairie Creek wind project in Blackford County, Indiana. I&M will purchase electricity from the wind project, which will further diversify its portfolio and be consistent with its all-of-the-above strategy to secure generation for its rapidly growing electricity demand.
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LCG, December 16, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced today that it has renewed the operating licenses of Constellation LLC’s Clinton Unit 1 in Clinton, Illinois, and Dresden Units 2 and 3, near Morris, Illinois, for an additional 20 years beyond the current expiration dates. The combined capacity of these three, Illinois-based nuclear units is 2,925 MW, and the operating license extension will enable the units to generate carbon-free power through about 2050.
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Industry News
Bush Administration Exempts Plants from Installing Clean Air Components
LCG, August 29, 2003-Administration officials changed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rules regarding allowable construction on aging power plants, refineries, and factories.The EPA will now allow owners of older plants to rebuild and expand existing structures without meeting current air pollution standards. The 1977 Clean Air Act's "new source review" altered rules so that aging plants and factories could continue operation even if they did not meet tougher, newly applied pollution rules. However, the rule did not allow plants to undergo any expansion without meeting the new air quality restrictions.Now the EPA will allow older plants and factories to replace equipment and expand old facilities, just as long as the price of new construction is 20 percent or less of the cost to replace the plant's production system.Marianne L. Horinko, acting administrator while the EPA has no head, signed the rule on Wednesday. Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt will soon take office as head of the EPA.Many members of the U.S. Congress and other officials, such as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, have voiced outrage at the new rule, asserting that the nation's health will suffer as a result. The American Lung Association has adamantly opposed the new rule, saying the EPA should protect public health instead of supporting industry.The EPA insists that the changes will have little effect on air pollution and will simply allow old plants and refineries to become more energy efficient. EPA officials did not comment on whether or not the new rule would allow older, pollution limit-exempt plants to live longer industry lives.
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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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