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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
New England Firm Plans 420 Megawatt Wind Farm
LCG, Oct. 31, 2001--Boston-based green electricity company Energy Management Inc. has announced plans to develop a 420 megawatt (nameplate capacity) wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts in Nantucket Sound.The company said it expects to get an optimistic 34 percent operating factor out of the Cape Wind Associates project, which, if achieved, means the wind farm would be the equivalent of a 140 megawatt power plant.According to Cape Wind President Jim Gordon, the wind farm will consist of about 150 pylon-mounted turbines on a 24-square-mile shoal in Nantucket Sound, a density of 6.25 turbines per square mile, which is fewer that the 9 per square mile many consider best for maximum generation.The company explained that the towers would be kept a half-mile apart so as not to affect navigation by fishing and pleasure boats.Gordon said the wind farm would save New England electricity customers tens of millions of dollars a year because "Once the turbines are built, the wind is free."Mike Worms, a New York energy analyst, disagreed. "I don't think wind power is cheap by any stretch," he said. "If it weren't for federal subsidies, it probably wouldn't even be a viable option."Worms was referring to a federal production tax credit that pays wind farm operators 1.7 cents per kilowatt-hour of power actually produced. That subsidy kicks in when a turbine first starts putting power on the grid and runs for 10 years, but the program is due to expire at the end of this year.Without the tax credit, wind power would cost about 6 cents per kilowatt-hour, compared to 1.83 cents for nuclear power, 2 cents for electricity produced in coal-fired plants and 3 cents for power from gas-fueled power plants.
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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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