|
News
|
LCG, April 13, 2026--The EIA today released an "In-brief Analysis" of U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retirements in 2025. A highlight of the analysis is that, during 2025, the electric power sector retired 2.6 GW of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, which is (i) the least since 2010 and (ii) 5.9 GW less than the planned retirement of 8.5 GW at the beginning of 2025.
Read more
|
|
LCG, April 10, 2026--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday a rule proposing several revisions to the federal regulations governing the disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCR) and the beneficial use of CCR. The EPA designed the rule to encourage resource recovery, allow for site-specific considerations in permitting, and provide regulatory relief while continuing to protect human health and the environment. The EPA will be accepting comments on the rule for 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, and it will also hold an online public hearing on the rule.
Read more
|
|
|
Industry News
Rollcast Announces Financial Closing for Georgia Biomass Project
LCG, October 22, 2010--Rollcast Energy, Inc. ("Rollcast") yesterday announced the closing of non-recourse, project financing for Rollcast's first greenfield biomass power project, Piedmont Green Power, LLC. The electricity generated by the 53.5-MW power plant will be purchased by Georgia Power under a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA). The project site is approximately 70 miles southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
Piedmont Green Power is scheduled to commence operations by the fourth quarter of 2012, and the Project's EPC contractor will be released to start construction immediately. Rollcast developed the project and will be manage the facility.
The power plant will consume approximately 500,000 tons of woody biomass per year, all of it sourced from the surrounding area.
The positive step forward for this biomass project is somewhat of a national anomaly, given the rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) earlier this year that have stalled many biomass power projects. Contrary to past understandings that biomass project are carbon neutral, the EPA's Tailoring Rule regulates emissions from the combustion of biomass the same as emissions from the combustion of fossil fuel. With the EPA's new position, biomass power plants are not deemed carbon neutral, placing new risk on biomass power plants for carbon emissions. Moreover, the EPA's proposed Industrial Boiler MACT rule created additional problems for biomass power producers earlier this year by setting emission limits that will be difficult if not impossible to achieve. The EPA may issue changes more favorable to biomass to both rules in early 2011.
|
|
|
|
UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
|
|
|
UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
|
|
|
UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
|
|
|
PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
|
|
|
|
|
