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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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LCG, October 21, 2025--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for their Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project located in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits allow ExxonMobil to convert three existing test wells permitted by the state to carbon dioxide (CO2) storage injection wells for long-term storage.
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Industry News
Regulators Asked to Block Nicor Gas Choice
LCG, Sept. 19, 2000--The Citizens Utility Board yesterday asked Illinois state regulators to investigate a natural gas deregulation program underway at Nicor Inc. and to prevent the company from expanding the program until it can prove the plan benefits consumers.Under the program, which Nicor began in 1998 and calls "Customer Select," 260,000 natural gas customers in 16 Illinois cities and towns have been allowed to switch to new suppliers for their gas. The company now wants to expand the program to all of its 1.9 million customers.In a petition filed yesterday with the Illinois Commerce Commission, CUB said there are too many problems with the plan as it is to warrant its expansion. The advocacy group pointed to problems consumers are said to be having with the program and asked that the regulators investigate them. The biggest problem, according to CUB, is confusion about the alternative suppliers and their prices.CUB says one company offered gas at 29.5 cents per therm on a three-year contract but, now that gas prices have risen, is charging its customers market rates. "So sue me," seems to be the company's attitude, but individual residential customers do not have that option and, because of the small sums involved, no trial lawyers have emerged to make the contract abrogation a speculative class action case.CUB is also concerned about Nicor Energy, the unregulated marketing affiliate of the utility. It seems that Nicor Energy offered customers who switched a "lock-in rate" of 26.5 cents per therm, but when gas prices started to rise it turned out the company had a skeleton key to the lock it was in the fine print.CUB wants the ICC to block the expansion of the program until the agency reviews these problemsand sets clear rules for how the alternative companies can market their rates and service. CUB alsowants Nicor Energy to be prohibited from misleading customers into thinking it is the same companyas Nicor Gas." Competition isn't supposed to be about misleading people into making the wrong choice, but that's exactly what's happening here," said Martin Cohen, executive director of the group.
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UPLAN-NPM
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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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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