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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
Luminant Allowed to Mothball Nearly 1,200 MW of Coal-fired Generation in Texas
LCG, November 1, 2012--The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) approved Luminant's proposal to mothball two coal-fired electric generating units at the Monticello Power Plant, located in northeastern Texas. ERCOT concluded the two units will not be necessary to ensure grid reliability through the upcoming winter and spring.
Luminant will mothball Monticello 1 and 2 commencing on December 1 for six to seven months. The capacity of each unit is 583 MW; Monticello 3, with a capacity of 763 MW, will remain available to produce power. The plant burns lignite, supplemented by Powder River Basin coal.
The units are approaching their 40-year anniversaries; Units 1, 2, and 3 commenced operations in 1974, 1975, and 1978, respectively.
According to Luminant, wholesale power prices are too low to support the costs required to keep the units available and to generate power.
In order to maintain reliable power resources, Texas regulators are taking some action to encourage new generation to be built and/or to defer retirement of existing generation. Last Thursday, the Texas Public Utility Commission voted to increase the price cap on wholesale electricity from $4,500/MWh, starting in June 2013. Initially, the cap will increase to $5,000/MWh, with subsequent annual increases reaching $9,000/MWh on June 1, 2015.
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