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LCG, March 18, 2025--RWE and Meta today announced a new power purchase agreement (PPA) for offtake from RWE's 200-MW Waterloo Solar Project, which is located in Bastrop County, Texas. Under the agreement, Meta will purchase 100% of the output from the solar facility, which will support Meta's goal of matching its electricity needs with 100 percent clean energy. The project is scheduled to commence onsite construction in late 2025.
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LCG, March 14, 2025--The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved an expansion of San Diego Gas & Electric's (SDG&E) Westside Canal Battery Energy Storage facility. The expansion project is located in California's Imperial Valley and will add 100 MW of energy storage capacity to the existing 131 MW facility. The new capacity is expected to be fully operational by June 2025. Upon completion, the Westside Canal facility, with a total capacity of 231 MW, will be the largest storage asset in SDG&E's utility-owned battery storage portfolio.
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Industry News
Re-regulation of Energy Derivatives Encounters Opposition
LCG, Mar. 21, 2002--A measure in a bill sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would bring energy derivatives back under regulatory supervision is being opposed by Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tex. and other Republican senators.Oversight of over-the-counter swaps and trading on electronic exchanges, such as Enron Online, ended with passage of the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Gramm, supported in his opposition by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, said that a connection between lack of oversight and the collapse of Enron was false. Swaps, often used to substitute fixed price purchases for floating price purchases, are typically used to manage and hedge risk. Trading in derivatives was a highly profitable activity for Enron.Feinstein said in a Senate floor speech, "there is no transparency, no record-keeping and no oversight of trades...We do not know the price of terms for 90 per cent of the energy transactions that take place." She alleged that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission lacks oversight necessary to investigate fully what role derivatives trading might have played during the California power crisis.A letter to Gramm from Greenspan and O'Neill said that reviving oversight of derivatives "could re-introduce legal uncertainties into off-exchange derivatives markets and other markets." They said that derivatives' contribution to risk-management would be harmed by regulation.The Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was passed with strong assistance from Gramm, the former banking committee chairman. He and his wife, Wendy Gramm, had strong relationships with Enron officials. Mrs. Gramm served on the company audit committee.
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