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LCG, May 19, 2026--Avangrid, Inc., a member of the Iberdrola Group, today announced the signing of a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) for the 199.5-MW Big Horn I wind project in Klickitat County, Washington. This agreement represents the fourth PPA executed by the two companies for projects in the Pacific Northwest.
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LCG, May 18, 2026--The U.S. Secretary of Energy today issued an emergency order to address critical grid reliability issues in the Midwest anticipated this summer. The order is in effect beginning on May 19, 2026, through August 16, 2026. The emergency order directs the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), in coordination with Consumers Energy, to ensure that the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant (Campbell Plant) in West Olive, Michigan shall take all steps necessary to remain available to operate and to minimize costs for the region.
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Industry News
California Capsule: Water Agency Can Collect from Ratepayers
LCG, March 8, 2001The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday voted to allow the state Department of Water Resources to collect from electricity consumers the money it spend buying wholesale power in their behalf.The PUC granted the water agency authority to demand that retail electric rates be set at levels "sufficient to enable DWR to recover its revenue requirements on a timely basis." If the state's investor-owned utilities had had that authority, there wouldn't be a California power crisis.The PUC action was necessary to reassure lenders from whom the state plans to borrow $10 billion or more to finance long-term power contracts.The action is certain to result in an across-the-board rate increase beyond those currently contemplated. The PUC's Office of Ratepayer Advocates acknowledged that electric bills would be going up. Chris Danforth, a spokesman for that watchdog agency, said "It's implicit that there's probably going to have to be a rate increase, but how it's all going to be handled is kind of up in the air."So far, money spent by the water agency for power has been coming out of the taxpayers' pockets at the rate of $50 million a day.And that's not all that's happening in the Golden State.- Those long-term contracts announced by California Gov. Gray Davis, under which the state will pay an average of $69 per megawatt-hour for wholesale electricity, may not be such a good deal with new power plants being authorized by the California Energy Commission. Robert Grow, an energy analyst who works for the commission observed "With new generation, the shortages will stop, and prices may return to something like normal, around $30 per megawatt-hour, and if you're paying $70 to $80 per megawatt hour, you're going to be paying way too much."
- Sunlaw Energy Corp., the applicant proposing to build the 550 megawatt Nueva Azalea Power Plant Project in the city of South Gate, requested yesterday that the California Energy Commission suspend its licensing process for the generating facility. South Gate voters on Tuesday rejected the company's plans in a "no in my back yard" advisory vote, and Sunlaw had said it wouldn't build where it wasn't wanted.
- By a 4-0 vote yesterday, the Energy Commission approved a 51 megawatt peaking plant that El Paso Merchant Energy Co. wants to build at the San Francisco International Airport. The facility, called United Golden Gate Power Project, was the sole remaining small peaking plants of seven proposed last fall. The others were withdraw in the face of neighborhood objections. None of the six cancelled plants would have been built in a residential area.
- In a move to conserve energy, Gov. Davis yesterday released an implementation plan designed to put teeth into his February order that directed retail businesses to significantly reduce outdoor lighting after March 15. The implementation plan seems to be a backing off from the governor's February threat that retailers who didn't dim the lights could be fined $1,000 per day. It is not clear what motivator will replace the fines.
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