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LCG, April 30, 2026--OG&E, the operating subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp., announced today that it will power three new data centers that Google announced in Muskogee and Stillwater, Oklahoma last year. As part of the agreement, Google will also make power generation capacity available from two solar facilities in Stephens and Muskogee Counties that are currently under construction. The data centers and associated Electric Service Agreements are expected to provide economic growth for local communities and the state, contribute to grid stability, and benefit OG&E's current customers.
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LCG, April 29, 2026--Graphic Packaging Holding Company today announced a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with NextEra Energy Resources, LLC. With the VPPA agreement, NextEra Energy Resources plans to build the Selenite Springs Energy Center, a 250-MW solar energy facility in West Texas, and Graphic Packaging will be the sole buyer of the facility's renewable energy attribute certificates. Graphic Packaging, a global provider of sustainable consumer packaging, expects the agreement to cover approximately 43 percent of its 2025 electricity usage in the U.S. and Canada. The agreement will advance Graphic Packaging's commitment to source renewable electricity and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Industry News
Ausra's Solar Thermal Plant Commences Power Production
LCG, October 24, 2008--Ausra, Inc. yesterday celebrated, together with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the opening of its Kimberlina Solar Thermal Energy Plant, located near Bakersfield, California. The project, which began construction only seven months ago, has an electric generating capacity of 5 MW. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will purchase the power from the facility.
The Kimberlina Solar Thermal Energy Plant facility incorporates Ausra's Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar technology, which is designed to use the sun's energy to boil water at high temperatures to power steam turbine generators, similar to traditional fossil-fuel power plants - but without air or water emissions. According to Ausra, a CLFR collector reflects and concentrates sunlight on an elevated absorber to roughly 30 times the intensity of sunshine at the earth?s surface.
The design can be scaled up to generate more power. Last November, PG&E announced a power purchase agreement with Ausra for the electric output from a 177-MW solar thermal power project proposed in central California in San Luis Obispo County. The project, Carrizo Plains Solar Power Plant, is scheduled to be operational in 2010. The solar collector footprint for the Carrizo Plains project will require about one square mile (640 acres) of land.
California passed a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Program that requires utilities to increase their electric supply procurement of eligible renewable generating resources by one percent of load per year, with a 20 percent renewables target by the end of 2010 and a 33 percent target by the end of 2020.
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