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SPP Board Approves Alternative, Accelerated Generation Interconnection Process to Improve Regional Resource Adequacy

LCG, May 8, 2025--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Board of Directors approved SPP’s proposed Expedited Resource Adequacy Study (ERAS) at its May 6 meeting. SPP developed the new ERAS in collaboration with its stakeholders in response to the growing need to add new generating resources before the region’s generating capacity is outpaced by its electricity demands. ERAS is intended to be a one-time, expedited study process designed to significantly accelerate the addition of new power generation facilities to the grid and address concerns about the near term ability to maintain the affordable and reliable electric service that consumers expect.

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EDP Renewables Completes Scarlet II Solar and Energy Storage Project in California

LCG, May 7, 2025--EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA) announced yesterday the inauguration of its Scarlet II Solar Energy Park (Scarlet II) in Fresno County, California. This phase of the solar plus energy storage project includes 200 MW of solar capacity, plus a co-located 150 MW/600 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). The initial phase of the project, Scarlet I, which provides 200 MW of solar and 40 MW/160 MWh of BESS, achieved commercial operations in July 2024.

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Gas Pipeline Connects Russia and Turkey

LCG, June 4, 2002--The $2.3 billion Blue Stream project, a gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey, has been completed and is ready for testing.

Eni SpA, an Italian oil and gas company, installed the pipeline in the Russian part of the Black Sea and says that the testing for both of the two lines created in the project will be completed by the end of the year.

The pipeline will annually move 16 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia to Turkey. The 24-inch diameter pipelines span 239 miles (384 kilometers) and are at an underwater depth of up to 2,150 meters.

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