|
News
|
LCG, February 24, 2026--The AES Corporation (AES) and Google today announced agreements for clean power generation that will be co-located with a new Google data center in Wilbarger County, Texas. The agreements include a 20-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for co-located power generation. These coordinated energy projects and powered land will enable Google to rapidly expand its operations to meet demand for core services, while AES will expand its power generation portfolio.
Read more
|
|
LCG, February 23, 2026--Amazon today announced plans to invest $12 billion to develop and construct state-of-the-art data center campuses in northwest Louisiana that will support cloud computing technologies. Amazon is partnering with STACK Infrastructure, the developer and owner of the campuses, to lead the construction and development of the data center facilities. Amazon has already invested in solar energy projects in Louisiana, bringing up to 200 MW of new carbon-free energy onto the grid.
Read more
|
|
|
Industry News
Southwest Power Pool Board Approves New Process to Accelerate High Impact Large Load Connections
LCG, September 16, 2025--Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) Board of Directors today announced that the Board approved a process to facilitate the connection of large users of electricity to the power grid while continuing to support energy needs for the entire region. SPP's new process is designed to incorporate transmission service, generation, load interconnection and other relevant reliability studies into a single framework that enables timely, informed decision-making and action.
SPP’s High Impact Large Load (HILL) policy followed months of collaboration among stakeholders and SPP staff to address the challenge of connecting customers with significant new demands, such as AI-driven data centers or manufacturing, while balancing essential goals of reliability and affordability.
"We’re striving to stay ahead of the game," said SPP's Vice President for Engineering. "Large loads want answers now. They are motivated to invest and are looking for opportunities to connect to the grid now."
The HILL policy will establish a 90-day study-and-approval process to interconnect large loads that will be paired with new generation (either on-site or nearby) or to interconnect large loads with existing or planned generation. According to SPP, the load interconnections should then be accelerated through integrated design, study, registration and operations. Moreover, the HILL process is designed such that it should enable early detection of system constraints, improve coordination across entities and prepare operators for real-time impacts.
"I’m very pleased we’ve adopted a policy that addresses an urgent need and opportunity in the SPP region," said an SPP Board Member. "I appreciate SPP’s quick work to develop an innovative proposal and our members’ and Regional State Committee’s active participation in refining it. This is a great example of our stakeholder process at its best, and I’m confident we now have an excellent approach to meeting the needs of our members and large-load customers looking to locate in the SPP region."
|
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
|
|
