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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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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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Industry News
Outlook Questionable for LG&E's Participation in the Midwest ISO
LCG, December 29, 2004--Earlier this month LG&E Energy LLC notified the Midwest ISO (MISO) that its Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities subsidiaries plan to withdraw from the regional transmission organization (RTO). LG&E Energy conducted a cost-benefit analysis and estimates that its utilities would save over $65 million over the next five years by leaving the MISO, even after incorporating an exit fee of $23.8 million.The Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) began an investigation earlier this year into the utilities joining the MISO, and a hearing is scheduled to begin after February 1, 2005. The costs to LG&E utilities for participating in the MISO, estimated to be $7 million for retail customers, can not be added to utility bills prior to PSC approval.Estimating the costs and benefits related to establishing and operating regional transmission organizations is an on-going concern. In neighboring Virginia, state legislation required utilities, such as Virginia Power, to join an RTO, thus making cost-benefit analyses somewhat a moot issue. To support the development of RTOs, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released a study in October designed to estimate the cost of developing a "Day One RTO" that meets the minimum requirements of the FERC's Order 2000. Given the unique nature of each of the limited number of existing RTOs, the FERC's review of actual cost data showed considerable cost differences between RTOs.The MISO has been conducting training and testing for its new market structure, which includes locational marginal pricing (LMP), and the market is planned to open on March 1, 2005.
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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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