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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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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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Industry News
EPA Proposes Rules to Push Cogeneration
LCG, Oct. 16, 2001--The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday proposed an amendment to the Clean Air Act that would encourage manufacturing and industrial concerns to provide their own electric power and, at the same time, produce thermal energy they now either purchase or produce in separate facilities.The proposed new rules would make it easier to get permits for cogeneration plants, which produce electricity and use the heat from that process to make steam for their manufacturing operations and use thermal energy to heat and cool their buildings.The idea is not new. Many of the "qualifying facility" power plants spawned by the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) are cogeneration plants. Some companies, which require large amounts of process steam, such as those in the chemicals industry, have built cogeneration plants for that purpose and sell surplus electricity in regional wholesale power markets.Cogeneration developers, such as Trigen Corp., have built cogen plants that provide heating and cooling to sections of cities and sell all their electric power into wholesale markets.Conventional thermal power plants -- coal-, natural gas- and oil-fueled facilities as well as nuclear power plants, vent their waste heat to the atmosphere. Cogeneration plants, by making use of this heat, typically achieve higher energy efficiency rates that the older plants.An older coal-fired power plant might produce power having only 30 to 50 percent of the energy present in the coal that was burned. Modern gas-fired plants, operating in combined-cycle where exhaust heat from combustion turbines is used to spin conventional turbines, improve on that and yield energy efficiency of perhaps 70 percent.But still, 30 percent of the energy present in the plant's fuel is wasted. In a cogeneration plant, as much as 80 percent of the fuel's energy is put to use. A national energy policy report released earlier this year by the Bush administration pointed to cogeneration as a way to increase U.S. energy efficiency.The proposed EPA rules would ease requirements for cogen plants under the agency's "new source review," which sets emissions limits for new power plants. Several industrial giants, such as Bethlehem Steel, Dow Chemical and Exxon Mobil have endorse the new rules.
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