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Southwest Power Pool Board Approves New Process to Accelerate High Impact Large Load Connections

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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Longroad Energy Announces Financial Close of 1000 Mile Solar Project in Texas

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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Florida Progress Must Sell Ball Club to Get Merger Approval

LCG, Nov. 28, 2000--CP&L Energy Inc., which said over the weekend that its acquisition of Florida Progress Corp. is scheduled to close on Thursday "pending approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission" may not get that approval as easily as it thought.

The Tampa Tribune reported this morning that Florida Progress has to sell its interest in the unfortunately-named Tampa Bay Devil Rays, thought of by some as a major league baseball team, before the SEC will sign off on the merger.

Florida Progress invested $5 million to bring major league ball to Tampa in the form of the Devil Rays, which gives it a 5.8 percent interest in the team but no say in its management. That is just as well for the utility, because it does not need customers complaining about the club's 69 and 92 record this year, which was good enough for last place in the American League East.

The SEC may grant a conditional approval, allowing consummation of the merger, with a must-sell date for getting rid of the Devil Rays. An earlier filing by CP&L Energy contemplated March 31, 2006, as such a deadline. Based on performance to date, it is unlikely the team will be coming off a pennant-winning year at that time.

CP&L spokesman Keith Poston said "It was never our intention to sell the interest in the Devil Rays, (but) it was clear that they (SEC officials) did not believe that the Devil Rays interest would pass muster."

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