News
LCG, September 4, 2025--Puget Sound Energy (PSE) announced yesterday that phased construction has commenced on its 142-MW Appaloosa Solar Project, a utility-scale solar facility underway in southeastern Washington. The project is being built by Qcells EPC, who will serve as the module manufacturer and the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solution provider. Construction is scheduled through 2026, and commercial operation is expected at the end of next year.
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LCG, September 3, 2025--The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and ENTRA1 Energy (ENTRA1) yesterday announced a new agreement to advance nuclear power development within TVA’s service region. Under the agreement, ENTRA1 Energy will collaborate with TVA to deploy six ENTRA1 Energy Plants™, each powered by multiple NuScale Power Modules™, to provide up to 6 GW of firm, 24/7 baseload power.
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Industry News
National Grid to Manage Alliance RTO
LXCG, Aug. 29, 2001--British electric power transmission company National Grid Plc said yesterday that it has been selected as managing member of the Alliance regional transmission operator, an 11-state transmission system manager stretching from the Midwest to the Appalachians.National Grid will make an initial investment of $75 million in Alliance Transco and continue with investments amounting to between 5 percent and 20 percent of the total invested by the RTO's 10 members.During the seven-year contract, National Grid will be paid $14 million a year by Alliance. It will be able to increase those earnings through an incentive systems based on reliability and customer savings.Alliance members have placed under the RTO's management transmission assets with a book value of $12 billion.The deal must receive approval of the member companies as well as that of federal regulators, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this year gave Alliance its tentative okay.In order to meet FERC's requirement that it be a "nonmarket" participant, National Grid said it would sell any remaining economic interests of affiliates in the power-generation and supply markets in the U.S.
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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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