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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
California Assembly Passes 'Brokerage' Legislation
LCG, Jan. 17, 2001The lower house of the California legislature yesterday evening passed legislation that would allow a state agency to purchase electric power and resell it to the state's beleaguered electric utilities at cost.Under the measure passed 60 to 5 in the Assembly, the state Department of Water Resources would be allowed to enter into long-term contracts to buy wholesale power for not more than 5.5 cents per kilowatt-hour.The bill is fatally flawed in that power producers will not sell power to anyone, including the state, for 5.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Because of extremely high natural gas prices, it is doubtful that power can be generated in California for that cost. The power producers have said they need between 7 cents and 8 cents per kilowatt-hour no matter who signs a long-term contract.Stacey Jernigan, a bankruptcy lawyer who has been advising Assembly leaders, said she was hopeful that the length of the contracts and the high volumes of power would make it possible to get the lower rate the bill would require. "It just depends on who you contact," she said.Depending on whom you contact may not have anything to do with it if natural gas prices do not drop abruptly and significantly. Yesterday in Southern California, some power plants were forced to switch to burning fuel oil because of high gas prices. The switch worsened another California power problem, that of insufficient generating resources, as the plants produce less power when using the alternate fuel.The Assembly bill moves to the state Senate today where realism may be applied to the price limit. If passed and reconciled with the Assembly, it will then go to Gov. Gray Davis for his signature. His pen is ready.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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