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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.

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Longroad Energy Announces Financial Close of 1000 Mile Solar Project in Texas

LCG, September 15, 2025--Longroad Energy announced today the financial close of 1000 Mile Solar, its 300 MWac (400 MWdc) solar project in Yoakum County, Texas. Longroad Energy finalized a long-term offtake agreement with Meta late last year in the form of an Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement, which includes a financial settlement arrangement for the entire energy output of 1000 Mile Solar.

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Sebastian Coppola, senior vice president and chief financial officer of gas company Semco Energy Inc., will take on the additional responsibilities of president and chief operating officer of Semco Energy Ventures, the company's unregulated subsidiary that owns intrastate gastransmission pipelines, underground gas storage and other non-regulated assets in Michigan.

Amiel David has been named senior vice president and managing director in the Houston office of Duke Capital Partners LLC. For the past eight years, he has been director and senior vice president at First Union Securities Inc., also in Houston.

Jeff Faulk has been named president and chief executive of Duke/Fluor Daniel, a joint venture between Fluor Corp. and Duke Energy Corp. that provides global engineering, construction and operating services to fossil-fueled power generating facilities. He most recently was a senior vice president of Flour Daniel.

T. J. Glauthier, former deputy secretary and chief operating officer with the U.S. Department of Energy, has been appointed president and chief executive of the newly founded Electricity Innovation Institute, an independent affiliated organization of the Electric Power Research Institute.

Lisa Metcalfe has been named vice president and chief technology officer of Avista Advantage, a subsidiary of Avista Corp., the former Washington (state) Water Power Co. She joins Avista from Washington (D.C.) Gas Light Co., where she was vice president and chief information officer.

Victor H. Pena has been named senior vice president and chief administrative officer ofNevada-based Sierra Pacific Resources Corp., the holding company for the state's major utilities, Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co. He returns to Sierra Pacific after three years in Atlanta as a vice president of AGL Resources Inc.

Richard Schwartz has been named vice president for business development by Avista Advantage, a subsidiary of Avista Corp. He most recently was senior vice president of Cambridge Technology Partners of Cambridge, Mass. where he served as chief operating officer for North America.

Theodore J. Vogel has been named vice president for taxes and tax counsel by CMS Energy Corp. He occupied that position with subsidiary CMS Enterprises from 1997 to 2000 andwas an attorney for CMS Energy's principal subsidiary, Consumers Energy Co., from 1979 to 1987.

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