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LCG, March 27, 2025--Avangrid, Inc., a member of the Iberdrola Group, today announced that its True North Solar project, located in Falls County, Texas, has achieved commercial operation. The True North Solar project will deliver electricity into ERCOT and support Meta's operations, including Meta's upcoming data center in neighboring Temple, its second data center in Texas.
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LCG, March 26, 2025--Qcells USA Corp. (Qcells), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hanwha Qcells, and Nofar USA (Nofar), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nofar Energy, recently announced a signed agreement to cooperate on the development and construction of two energy storage projects in Texas. The projects have a combined capacity of 350 MW with a 2-hour duration (700 MWh).
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Industry News
CA Regulators to Vote Today on Rate Hike Revenue
LCG, October 24, 2002-The CPUC will vote today on whether or not to allow California utilities to use rate hike money for purposes other than buying electricity.Last year the California Public Utilities Commission permitted Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric utility to increase their retail electricity rates by a total of $0.04 per kilowatt-hour in order that the utilities meet some of their debt payments. In January last year, the CPUC allowed a one cent increase, and in March of last year, an additional three-cent increase was allowed, after which Pacific Gas & Electric utility declared bankruptcy.The CPUC passed these "overcollections" because the mandated price of retail power was not high enough during the energy crisis of 2000/2001 to cover the cost of wholesale power, and the utilities were having trouble staying out of the red.CPUC President Loretta Lynch came out with a proposal to allow the utilities to do whatever was needed with the revenue from the two rate hikes; currently the utilities must use overcollections to purchase power. The spot price of wholesale power has been below retail rates for over a year, and Lynch's proposal is intended to allow some of the revenue from overcollections to be used to restore the utilities' financial health.The utilities clearly support the plan, which offers them more freedom to spend ratepayers' money where it is needed. Consumer advocates, however, such as those from the Utility Reform Network, call it the "it's our surcharge and we'll do what we please with it" decision.
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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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