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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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Tractebel Building 1,225 Megawatts in 2 U.S. Projects

LCG, Aug. 24, 2001--The North American power project development subsidiary of Belgian utility Tractebel said yesterday that it has begun construction on two U.S. natural gas-fired merchant power plants totaling 1,225 megawatts of electricity generating capacity.

Tractebel Project Development Inc. said it will build a 505 megawatt facility at Chehalis, Wash. at a cost of $360 million. The plant, located midway between Portland, Ore. and Seattle, is scheduled to commence commercial operation in late 2003, when it will begin selling its output into the Northwest Power Pool.

The company will also build a $350 million, 720 megawatt power plant in Wise County, Texas, northwest of Dallas, and will serve the growing demands of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It too will be completed in late 2003, when it will start pushing power into the North Texas regional electricity market.

"The Chehalis and Wise County electric generation projects are important additions to Tractebel'sNorth American power portfolio. Once built, these state-of-the-art facilities will provide clean andreliable energy at competitive prices in regions where the energy is most critically needed," saidWilliam P. Utt, chief executive of Tractebel North America Inc.

Both plants are being built by Reading, Pa.-based Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group Inc. under engineering, procurement, construction contracts.

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