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LCG, September 16, 2025--Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) Board of Directors today announced that the Board approved a process to facilitate the connection of large users of electricity to the power grid while continuing to support energy needs for the entire region. SPP's new process is designed to incorporate transmission service, generation, load interconnection and other relevant reliability studies into a single framework that enables timely, informed decision-making and action.
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LCG, September 15, 2025--Longroad Energy announced today the financial close of 1000 Mile Solar, its 300 MWac (400 MWdc) solar project in Yoakum County, Texas. Longroad Energy finalized a long-term offtake agreement with Meta late last year in the form of an Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement, which includes a financial settlement arrangement for the entire energy output of 1000 Mile Solar.
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Industry News
Alliant Energy to Proceed with 500-MW New Wind Project
LCG, October 28, 2016--Alliant Energy's Iowa-based subsidiary Interstate Power & Light (IPL) announced yesterday that it will proceed with the New Wind Project, which will add up to 500 MW of new wind generation in Iowa. Construction may commence as early as next year. Alliant Energy expects that 250 MW of wind farm electric generating capacity will commence operations in 2019, with the remainder delivering power to the grid in 2020.
The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) issued a final order regarding the New Wind Project on October 25 that approves, with limited modifications, the settlement between Alliant Energy and customer groups that was filed on October 12, 2016.
"The New Wind Project will benefit our customers, our communities and the state," said the president of IPL. "The wind turbines will generate clean, cost-effective energy for customers. They also create tax revenue for communities, and bring construction jobs and economic growth to the state, making this a win-win project."
Alliant Energy is currently evaluating sites near its existing Whispering Willow Wind Farm and other areas of the state.
In announcements last August, Alliant's CEO stated that the timing of the project is designed to take advantage of the federal wind energy production tax credit (PTC). Similarly, MidAmerican Energy set forth and received approval from the IUB last summer for its plans to construct in Iowa the Wind XI project, with a design capacity of 2,000 MW and an estimated cost of $3.6 billion. Like Alliant's project, the MidAmerican Energy project schedule is driven to maximize the federal PTC, which is set to decline in value by 20 percent by year, beginning in 2017.
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