|
News
|
LCG, April 2, 2026--Southwest Power Pool (SPP) today announced that the expansion of its service territory into the Western Interconnection has been a success. The milestone makes SPP the first regional transmission organization (RTO) with services spanning the Eastern and Western Interconnections. Its member organizations, which cover all or part of 17 states, can now benefit from a more operationally and geographically diverse integrated system.
Read more
|
|
LCG, March 31, 2026--Holtec International yesterday announced that it successfully completed a milestone test necessary to return Holtec's Palisades Nuclear Generating Station to service. The 805-MW pressurized water reactor (PWR) is located in Michigan and was shut down by Entergy in May 2022. Holtec acquired the facility in June 2022 and has pursued a path to return the plant to service.
Read more
|
|
|
Industry News
Ausra's Solar Thermal Plant Commences Power Production
LCG, October 24, 2008--Ausra, Inc. yesterday celebrated, together with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the opening of its Kimberlina Solar Thermal Energy Plant, located near Bakersfield, California. The project, which began construction only seven months ago, has an electric generating capacity of 5 MW. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will purchase the power from the facility.
The Kimberlina Solar Thermal Energy Plant facility incorporates Ausra's Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar technology, which is designed to use the sun's energy to boil water at high temperatures to power steam turbine generators, similar to traditional fossil-fuel power plants - but without air or water emissions. According to Ausra, a CLFR collector reflects and concentrates sunlight on an elevated absorber to roughly 30 times the intensity of sunshine at the earth?s surface.
The design can be scaled up to generate more power. Last November, PG&E announced a power purchase agreement with Ausra for the electric output from a 177-MW solar thermal power project proposed in central California in San Luis Obispo County. The project, Carrizo Plains Solar Power Plant, is scheduled to be operational in 2010. The solar collector footprint for the Carrizo Plains project will require about one square mile (640 acres) of land.
California passed a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Program that requires utilities to increase their electric supply procurement of eligible renewable generating resources by one percent of load per year, with a 20 percent renewables target by the end of 2010 and a 33 percent target by the end of 2020.
|
|
|
|
UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
|
|
|
UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
|
|
|
UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
|
|
|
PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
|
|
|
|
|
