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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.
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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.
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Industry News
California Adopts Six-Month Plant Licensing Regulations
LCG, Nov. 16, 2000--The California Energy Commission yesterday voted unanimously to adopt emergency regulations for a new six-month power plant licensing process that will allow some power plants to be licensed and come on-line more quickly.Power projects that qualify for the speedy treatment are those which would have raised no eyebrows in the first place. In other words, the commission has done nothing to speed up the permitting of run-of-the-mill power plants which are the kind the state needs.A qualifying project will be one that could be licensed with a phone call.- It must meet all local, state and federal air quality rules including best available control technology requirements and have contracts for required air emission offsets.
- It must not cause adverse water impacts or require new appropriations of water. The commission said it will look kindly on projects that are air-cooled.
- It must be in full compliance with all land use requirements, including the general plans and zoning requirements of local government bodies.
- It must avoid "significant natural resource impacts," which means it cannot interfere with spotted owls, snail darters, rare wild mushrooms or the salt marsh mouse. I would help if it looked pretty, too.
- It must achieve efficient use of fuels.
- If you're a power plant developer and you can do all that you can get a permit in six months or maybe even sooner. But you will have to have already settled with local jurisdictions.
- All agencies will be required to provide their input within 100 days of when the commission accepts the application and the so-called "discovery" process much abused by anti-power plant activists will be held within "certain time frames," the commission said.
- If something goes wrong with a "fast track" application, the developer can move it to what the commission calls its "standard 12-month review process" without preparing a new application. Sometimes the 12-month process takes three years.
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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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