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LCG, October 23, 2025--Google announced today a first-of-its kind agreement to support a natural gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The 400-MW Broadwing Energy power project, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By agreeing to buy most of the power it generates, Google is helping get this new, baseload power source built and connected to the regional grid that supports our data centers.
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LCG, October 21, 2025--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for their Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project located in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits allow ExxonMobil to convert three existing test wells permitted by the state to carbon dioxide (CO2) storage injection wells for long-term storage.
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Industry News
Private Equity Firm to Buy Eight Duke Power Plants
LCG, May 5, 2004--Duke Energy has said that it will reduce its ownership of merchant power plants by one-third, completely divesting itself of such plants in the southeastern U.S., after completing a planned sale of eight facilities to a private equity fund.The sale, to the fund MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners II, brings the total value of asset sales either announced or closed by Duke Energy to approximately $2.5 billion this year. The plants to be sold burn natural gas, are located in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi, and have a total capacity of 5,325 megawatts.The completion of the sale is expected in the third quarter of the year, following the approval of each plant's sale by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the approval of the deal by the Federal Trade Commission.The MatlinPatterson fund was started by a former banker with Credit Suisse First Boston, David Matlin, in autumn of 2003. Initially, its investments centered on distressed debt of companies such as MCI, formerly WorldCom. The fund will reportedly acquire the Duke plants for $475 million.
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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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