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SPP's Western Expansion Set for Implementation on April 1

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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Entergy Estimates Customer Savings of $5B from "Fair Share Plus" Data Center Agreements

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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Montana Power Sells Oil and Gas Unit

LCG, Aug. 29, 2000--Montana Power Co. said yesterday it has sold its nonregulated natural gas and oil business unit to PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. of Calgary for $475 million (U.S.). Proceeds from the sale will be invested in Montana Powers telecommunications subsidiary.

The sale includes subsidiaries that have interests in crude oil, natural gas and gas liquids exploration, production and marketing in the United States and Canada.

Robert P. Gannon, chairman and chief executive, noted that "Montana Power has had a Canadian presence for nearly a half century."

The U.S. businesses have are mostly in northern Montana and in the Denver-Julesburg Basin north of Denver and include minor properties in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, and Green River Basin, Wyo. Modern fractionation plants are at Cut Bank, Mont. and Ft. Lupton, Colo. The Canadian properties reside mostly in southern and central Alberta and in southern Saskatchewan.

David Tuer, PanCanadian's president and chief executive, said "The potential in these assetsis significant, and over the next few years, we will add substantially to PanCanadian's daily natural gas production."

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