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LCG, October 16, 2026--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on Thursday its new proposal to revise and accelerate its review of air quality effects for proposed natural gas projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The draft policy statement highlights revisions designed to (i) avoid unnecessary delays and duplicative analysis and (ii) deliver greater regulatory certainty and a streamlined path forward for project applicants.
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LCG, October 14, 2026--American Electric Power (AEP) today announced plans for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google, under which AEP will invest approximately $4 billion to advance a new 702-MW fuel cell generation project located near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Google will acquire power from Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, which is approximately 92 percent owned and controlled by AEP and 8 percent owned by funds advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners, LLP. AEP and its partners plan to start construction this year and to be fully operational by the end of 2028.
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Industry News
Texas Electric Dereg Sneaks in Quietly
LCG, Aug. 1, 2001Electric deregulation came quietly to Texas yesterday as a thrice-delayed pilot program of customer choice slowly got underway. Only 90,000 residential retail customers had signed up for the program, which was open to 5 percent, or about 295,000, customers.The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which has become the state's independent system operator, was doing the switching of customers to alternative electricity providers under a pilot program aimed at giving the state's utilities some experience with deregulation before it descends full bloom on the state next January 1."We're starting slowly, so we have had 75 switch-overs today and 75 tomorrow, and then we'll be ramping up as we test the systems," ERCOT spokeswoman Jennifer Taylor said. The full conversion should be finished by the end of August.The program was originally schedule to begin June 1, but computer problems caused the date to be set back three times. ERCOT, which operates 10 separate control areas in Texas, had to convert its systems to manage the state's grid from a central point in Austin, and there were bugs.Those delays had some people worried that California-like problems could plague the Texas adventure, but supporters pointed to a couple of big differences. For one thing, there will be no shortage of power supply in Texas, which has been permissive in allowing the construction of new power plants, while California actively continues to discourage new facilities on environmental grounds.In addition, the Texas wholesale power market has been operating smoothly for more than five years. A major problem in California was a requirement that all electricity be bought and sold through a state power exchange which operated as a spot market. Utilities were barred from entering into long-term contracts for power to serve their native loads.Despite the slow beginning, the beginning yesterday of deregulation in Texas was seen as an event of consequence."This is a historic moment for electric customers in Texas. Texans can now choose their electriccompany the same way they choose other goods and services in their everyday lives," said TexasPublic Utilities Commission Chairman Max Yzaguirre.They will be choosing from retail providers including California Gov. Gray Davis' "biggest snakes on the planet earth" plus some companies that avoided the Golden State's market, such as Entergy Corp., Texas-New Mexico Power Co., TXU Corp., Royal Dutch/Shell's Shell Energy and The New Power Co., a joint venture of Enron Corp., AOL/Time Warner Inc. and IBM.There are also 10 registered aggregators who hope to put together groups of small customers that are sufficient large in sum to negotiate lower rates from power producers.
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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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