News
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
Duke Affiliate Settles Charges of False Reporting
LCG, Sept. 17, 2003--Duke Energy Trading & Marketing, an affiliate of Duke Energy Corp., was issued an order by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to pay $28 million, based on the agency's findings that the affiliate had knowingly reported false trading information to publishers of natural gas transactions, charges that the company neither admitted nor denied.The CFTC stated that price and volume information was falsified in cash-based transactions, some of which did not in fact take place. The regulatory agency also concluded that reporting by Duke Energy Trading & Marketing could have had an effect on prices of natural gas futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The time during which the reporting was to have taken place is January 2000 through August 2002, through the Houston office.The $28 million consitutes a civil penalty, and is linked with a pledge by Duke of cooperation in further fact-finding by the CFTC.
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