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LCG, March 13, 2026--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) announced yesterday that leaders from the participating organizations voted unanimously to proceed as planned with expanding its regional transmission organization (RTO) services into the Western Interconnection. SPP sees the decision to proceed as planned as a strong signal of confidence as SPP and its partner utilities prepare for this key milestone, which will occur overnight between March 31 and April 1.
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LCG, March 6, 2026--Entergy yesterday announced approximately $5 billion in total savings for 2.3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi resulting from data center customer agreements in those states. Entergy, which completed its first data center customer agreement in 2024, projects the customer savings over the next 20 years and after the regulatory approval or acknowledgement of the public service commissions in those states.
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Industry News
State to Probe PG&E Load Shedding Policy
LCG, Aug. 14, 2000--Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is dusting off a long-standing but unused load shedding policy that would give some large industrial and commercial customers immunity from random blackouts when the lights blink out at other locations in their neighborhoods.According to a report published yesterday in the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, PG&E account managers are "quietly" getting the word out to big power users that if the agree to reduce power consumption on demand, the utility will keep the power flowing. The paper pointed out that small commercial and residential customers are excluded from the program.Loretta Lynch, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, has promised to investigate the program. "To get an absolute right not to be blacked out is a bit much," she said. The PUC, the state attorney general and a special panel set up by Gov. Gray Davis are investigating Californias deregulated electric industry, which has been blamed for soaring residential electric bills in San Diego.Recent high temperatures -- another siege of heat is forecast for this week -- has kept the California Independent System Operator at the point of ordering a "Stage 3 Alert," which would trigger rolling blackouts. Only recently have officials become concerned whether the risk of being blacked out is evenly distributed.On June 14, 97,000 San Francisco Bay Area electric customers in all classes had their power cut for about an hour when there wasnt enough electricity to go around. The outages were blamed on a heat wave, but the real reason was an insufficiency of generation in the region. That resulted in a low-voltage indication at PG&Es Hayward substation, and that in turn triggered the outages.Californias booming high-tech economy has not only created a huge demand for electricity, it is churning out products that themselves require more electricity. At the same time, regulatory uncertainty throughout the 1990s dampened utilities enthusiasm for investing in new power plants. Add to that federal encouragement of non-utility investment in power plants through the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act -- the hated PURPA which required utilities to buy power from independent "qualifying facilities" -- and you have a predictable power shortage.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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