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LCG, February 24, 2026--The AES Corporation (AES) and Google today announced agreements for clean power generation that will be co-located with a new Google data center in Wilbarger County, Texas. The agreements include a 20-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for co-located power generation. These coordinated energy projects and powered land will enable Google to rapidly expand its operations to meet demand for core services, while AES will expand its power generation portfolio.
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LCG, February 23, 2026--Amazon today announced plans to invest $12 billion to develop and construct state-of-the-art data center campuses in northwest Louisiana that will support cloud computing technologies. Amazon is partnering with STACK Infrastructure, the developer and owner of the campuses, to lead the construction and development of the data center facilities. Amazon has already invested in solar energy projects in Louisiana, bringing up to 200 MW of new carbon-free energy onto the grid.
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Industry News
Washington State Utilities Hope for Refunds Based on Enron Memos
LCG, May 14, 2002--The trading strategies used by Enron's Western traders and the associated discussion in Dec. 2000 legal memos form the basis for a planned legal brief by Washington utilities seeking refunds for expensive power purchases.Seattle City Light and Tacoma Public Utilities will seek to recover $348 million paid for short-term power purchases from Enron and other power marketers. The utilities will again argue before an administrative law that the sales did not represent "just and reasonable" criteria enforceable by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Their arguments were rejected last fall, but may be seen in a different light since Enron's corporate attorneys' description of methods by which the company gamed the market in late 2000 and early 2001 have come into focus.Perhaps ironically, the FERC has sent letters to Seattle City Light among other public utilities as well as large traders, in order to determine whether their trading activities were designed to take advantage of the situation in California, where flexible price caps were placed on in-state generation. If refunds are found to be justified, the recovery of actual funds may be very difficult, due to the number of creditors interested in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. For the moment, Seattle City Light's rate increases following the power market crisis of the past year amount to 60 percent.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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