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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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LCG, October 21, 2025--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for their Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project located in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits allow ExxonMobil to convert three existing test wells permitted by the state to carbon dioxide (CO2) storage injection wells for long-term storage.
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Industry News
California Capsule: Sacramento Wasn't Paying Attention
LCG, Feb. 28, 2001Browsing through EnergyOnline Daily News files a form of journalistic narcissism we found a now-expired solution to at least part of California's electrical dilemma.In a news story datelined Aug. 1, 2000 seven months ago we reported that Duke Energy North America said it had told Gov. Gray Davis how to solve the state's power problems, which were then about three months old and soon would get a lot worse.Noting that there was a shortage of power plants in the state, the Duke unit suggested Davis speed up the permitting process to facilitate the rapid construction of new generation. If he did, Duke said at the time, it would build 500 megawatts worth of portable power plants on top of expanding the capacity of the power plants it purchased from Pacific Gas & Electric Co.But the big part of Duke's recommendation was its offer to provide up to 2,000 megawatts of electricity to the state's three utilities at $50 per megawatt-hour for a five-year period beginning Sept. 1, 2000. Had the governor used his clout to make such a deal possible, it is probable that other independent power producers would have made similar offers..Yesterday, Duke spokesman Tom Williams said the company never heard back from the governor.But that doesn't mean Davis has been silent. That, and other news:- Speaking to a luncheon of the California State Society in Washington yesterday, Davis said he ought to have all his "legislative fixes" accomplished by the end of the month. On the state's takeover of transmission assets from its three investor-owned utilities, the governor noted that Southern California Edison Co. was already in agreement, but said "PG&E is taking a little longer." He added, "two, three, four weeks at the outside and we'll have PG&E worked out."
- The transmission takeover would require approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, so Davis had some advice for President Bush on how to fill two vacancies on the panel. "It is my hope," he said, "that whoever the president chooses is a practical businessman or woman who lives in the real world." Davis' own appointees to California regulatory bodies do not reflect that approach.
- With or without friendly commissioners, Davis is likely to have trouble with FERC. Curt Hebert Jr., FERC's chairman, has said a state takeover of transmission facilities would be tantamount to "nationalization" and might not be in the public interest.
- Davis met yesterday with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in an effort to get support for the transmission takeover. Though a spokeswoman said the meeting was "very productive," it failed to produce support for Davis' plan.
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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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