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LCG, August 15, 2025--Xcel Energy announced that the company received state approval yesterday from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to extend operations of the Prairie Island nuclear plant through the early 2050s. Prairie Island has two units that have a combined generating capacity of 1,100 MW. The units’ current operating licenses expire in 2033 and 2034.
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LCG, August 7, 2025--Portland General Electric (PGE) today announced the completion of three, four-hour lithium-ion utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Oregon, adding 475 MW and more than 1.9 GWh of dispatchable capacity to serve the Portland metro area. Each of these BESS facilities can deliver power during peak demand or when other electric generating facilities are limited, which improves system flexibility, reliability and costs.
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Industry News
Kinder Morgan to Fuel Calpine’s Pasadena 2 Plant
LCG, July 6, 2000--Kinder Morgan Inc. said yesterday a subsidiary would provide about three-quarters of the natural gas needed by Calpine Corp.s new Pasadena 2 cogeneration plant in Texas under a contract that will continue through the summer of 2002.Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline will supply the Calpine plant with 60,000 MMBtu of natural gas per day under the agreement. Kinder Morgan already provides 100 percent of the natural gas Calpine burns at its Pasadena 1 plant.Diana Naylor, a Calpine senior vice president, said her company was pleased with the arrangement. They (Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline) have provided Calpine with professional and reliableservice in the past and we are confident that they will continue to do so in the future, she said.Richard D. Kinder, chief executive of his company, noted that Natural gas has become the fuel of choice for power generation, and a number of new gas-fired plants are planned to be built in close proximity to our extensive pipeline system during the next few years.
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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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