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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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LCG, October 23, 2025--Google announced today a first-of-its kind agreement to support a natural gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The 400-MW Broadwing Energy power project, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By agreeing to buy most of the power it generates, Google is helping get this new, baseload power source built and connected to the regional grid that supports our data centers.
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Industry News
$10.7 Billion a Year Missing Off India's Power Wires
LCG, Jan. 8, 2001Indian power minister Suresh Prabhu yesterday promised financial assistance to states that whipped their electricity boards into shape. To get the help, the state electricity boards would have to make sure that every kilowatt of electricity generated reached a paying customer."Our system is losing about rupees 50,000 crore a year due to various factors including thefts and slippages of transmission and distribution," Prabhu said. While an Indian rupee is worth 2.141 cents U.S., a crore is 10 million of them, and Rs 50,000 crore is 500 billion rupees, or $10.7 billion.In India, a state electricity board takes possession of electric power as it leaves the power plant and delivers it to its customers. Along the way, perhaps a third of the power is stolen or given away. Some fearless Indians simply throw a wire over a transmission line, hook the other end to a transformer and light up a neighborhood. Others are more professional and climb a pole to make their connection.Aren't they seen? Cannot they be apprehended? Yes, to both. But they are not prosecuted. Instead they bribe a local official of the electricity board. Those bribes represent the greater portion of the official's income, so the practice continues. To the power thieves, the electricity is cheap. And the official can live as he thinks he should be able to live.More power is given away by corrupt electricity boards and yet more is sold at rates below the cost of generation to farmers. The Indian government wants these practices stopped.Some in India shrug at what they call "slippage" but Prabhu called it a colossal national loss. He said the electricity boards must be "depoliticized" immediately and that state governments must stop pressuring the boards to show favoritism with electricity rates.State boards that tighten up their systems will be rewarded. "We are working out customized memorandum of understandings with each state for reforms. Those who agree will get financial assistance for which I am talking to the World Bank," Prabhu said. Prabhu said India needs $171 billion in investment if it is to meet its goal of power-on-demand by 2012, but pointed out that three-quarters of that sum could be saved by eliminating the "slippage."
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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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