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LCG, May 8, 2025--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Board of Directors approved SPP’s proposed Expedited Resource Adequacy Study (ERAS) at its May 6 meeting. SPP developed the new ERAS in collaboration with its stakeholders in response to the growing need to add new generating resources before the region’s generating capacity is outpaced by its electricity demands. ERAS is intended to be a one-time, expedited study process designed to significantly accelerate the addition of new power generation facilities to the grid and address concerns about the near term ability to maintain the affordable and reliable electric service that consumers expect.
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LCG, May 7, 2025--EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA) announced yesterday the inauguration of its Scarlet II Solar Energy Park (Scarlet II) in Fresno County, California. This phase of the solar plus energy storage project includes 200 MW of solar capacity, plus a co-located 150 MW/600 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). The initial phase of the project, Scarlet I, which provides 200 MW of solar and 40 MW/160 MWh of BESS, achieved commercial operations in July 2024.
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Industry News
Entergy Announces Agreement to Sell Gas-fired Power Plant in New England
LCG, October 9, 2015-Entergy Corp. yesterday announced that its wholesale generation division, Entergy Wholesale Commodities, has entered into an agreement to sell its 583-MW Rhode Island State Energy Center to Carlyle Power Partners. The base sales price is approximately $490 million, subject to closing adjustments. The transaction is expected to close by the end of this year.
The Rhode Island State Energy Center (RISEC) is a natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generating facility located about five miles from Providence, Rhode Island. Entergy Wholesale Commodities purchased the plant from NextEra Energy Resources, LLC for $346 million in December 2011. The facility entered commercial service in 2002.
Entergy Chairman and CEO stated, "Our strategy for EWC is focused on being disciplined about reducing risk and freeing up financial resources for other opportunities. RISEC has been a very good investment for us, and its sale is consistent with that strategy."
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