News
LCG, June 11, 2025--The AES Corporation (AES) announced today that it has completed construction of the 1,000 MW Bellefield 1 project, which is under a 15-year contract with Amazon. Bellefield is a two-phase project, with each phase including 500 MW of solar plus 500 MW of a four-hour, battery energy storage system (BESS). When Phase II is completed in 2026, the total installed capacity will be 2,000 MW, and AES expects the total project will be the largest solar-plus-storage facility in the United States.
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LCG, June 9, 2025--Duke Energy announced today its intent to submit an application to the Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSCSC) for approval to build a new natural gas combined-cycle generating facility with hydrogen capability in Anderson County, South Carolina. The company plans to submit the construction application to the PSCSC later this year. If approved, it expects construction would commence in summer 2027, with operations beginning by early 2031.
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Industry News
LCG releases new ERCOT Electricity Market Outlook reports
LCG, January 11, 2013 –LCG Consulting (LCG) of Los Altos, California recently released its assessment and forecast of ERCOT operations for 2013. Extended simulations are also available for the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The standard reports outline the results of comprehensive hourly simulations of market operations in the ERCOT region including forecasts of key metrics such as load zone and hub prices, ancillary service prices, congested transmission lines, wind production and curtailment, valuation of congestion revenue rights and other information of interest to market participants. Customized details can also be extracted from the modeling results.
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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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