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LCG, April 30, 2026--OG&E, the operating subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp., announced today that it will power three new data centers that Google announced in Muskogee and Stillwater, Oklahoma last year. As part of the agreement, Google will also make power generation capacity available from two solar facilities in Stephens and Muskogee Counties that are currently under construction. The data centers and associated Electric Service Agreements are expected to provide economic growth for local communities and the state, contribute to grid stability, and benefit OG&E's current customers.
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LCG, April 29, 2026--Graphic Packaging Holding Company today announced a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with NextEra Energy Resources, LLC. With the VPPA agreement, NextEra Energy Resources plans to build the Selenite Springs Energy Center, a 250-MW solar energy facility in West Texas, and Graphic Packaging will be the sole buyer of the facility's renewable energy attribute certificates. Graphic Packaging, a global provider of sustainable consumer packaging, expects the agreement to cover approximately 43 percent of its 2025 electricity usage in the U.S. and Canada. The agreement will advance Graphic Packaging's commitment to source renewable electricity and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Industry News
McCain and Lieberman Back Greenhouse Gas Caps
LCG, Jan. 8, 2003--Today marks the beginning of hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee concerning a proposed national cap-and-trade program for pollutants such as carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases, promoted by committee chairman John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, a likely Democratic presidential candidate.President Bush, who said during his presidential campaign that he would seek reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants, but withdrew his support for such regulation once in office, would almost certainly continue to oppose the new proposal, on the grounds that it would send power prices up by causing greater reliance on natural gas, and less on coal.McCain, who opposed Bush in the 2000 presidential election, would like to see an emissions trading program that would allow companies to buy and sell emissions allowances, the creation of which would decline over time. "We need to have a proposal out there that would start to generate some movement on this issue," McCain told the New York Times. "Other countries have done this, and there are states and U.S. companies that are moving forward," he said.Many power plant owners, according to representatives, believe that regulation is likely to remain confined to sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury, which are not considered greenhouse gases. Scientists believe that carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases that are addressed in the McCain-Lieberman bill trap heat in the atmosphere. If emissions trading programs expand "under any of the multipollutant scenarios," as Dale Heydlauff of American Electric Power put it, coal-fired power plants would become less competitive. Joe Nipper, with the American Public Power Association, said that upgrading power plants once they have been built can pose heavy costs that their owners would rather not be surprised by due to emerging legislation. "We need certainty. It's the nature of our business," he said.Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, an envirnmental group, said any utility would be wise to account for the possibility of emissions trading in the four major pollutants. Although utilities disagree on the pollutants they would like included under or excluded from trading programs, based in part on their generation portfolios, input would likely also come from the transportation and other non-electric industries, which are covered by the McCain-Lieberman bill.
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