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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
EPA Issues Final MATS Rule
LCG, April 3, 2013--The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 29 issued the final rule for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for new coal- and oil-fired power plants, setting mercury limits slightly higher than the previous rule set in December 2011.
The EPA's action revises certain new source numerical limits in the MATS National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP). Specifically, the EPA is finalizing revised hydrogen chloride (HCl), filterable particulate matter (fPM), sulfur dioxide (SO2), lead (Pb), and selenium emission limits for all new coal-fired electric generating units (EGUs); the mercury (Hg) emission limit for the "unit designed for coal > 8,300 Btu/lb subcategory;" fPM and SO2 emission limits for new solid oil-derived fuel-fired EGUs; fPM emission limits for new continental liquid oil-fired EGUs; and most of the emission limits for new integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) units.
The final rule sets the limit for mercury emissions for units not designed for low rank virgin coal at 0.003 pounds/GWh, which is slightly higher than the initial rule. Mercury emissions for units designed for low rank virgin coal were not opened for reconsideration.
With respect to fPM, emission limits from all new coal-fired power plants are set to 0.09 pound/MWh, and HCl emission limits are set to 0.01 pound/MWh.
The EPA stated, "Our analysis shows that new EGUs would choose to install and operate the same or similar air pollution control technologies in order to meet the revised emission limits as would have been necessary to meet the previously finalized standards. We project that this final action will result in no significant change in costs, emission reductions, or benefits. Even if there were changes in costs for these EGUs, such changes would likely be small relative to both the overall costs of the individual projects and the overall costs and benefits of the final rule. Further, we believe that EGUs would put on the same controls for this final action that they would have for the original final MATS rule, so there should not be any incremental costs related to this revision."
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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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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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