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LCG, October 16, 2026--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on Thursday its new proposal to revise and accelerate its review of air quality effects for proposed natural gas projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The draft policy statement highlights revisions designed to (i) avoid unnecessary delays and duplicative analysis and (ii) deliver greater regulatory certainty and a streamlined path forward for project applicants.
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LCG, October 14, 2026--American Electric Power (AEP) today announced plans for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google, under which AEP will invest approximately $4 billion to advance a new 702-MW fuel cell generation project located near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Google will acquire power from Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, which is approximately 92 percent owned and controlled by AEP and 8 percent owned by funds advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners, LLP. AEP and its partners plan to start construction this year and to be fully operational by the end of 2028.
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Industry News
Clean Coal Tech Would Boost Power Costs a Third, DOE Says
LCG, Nov. 2, 2001--Converting older coal-fired power plants that were "grandfathered" under the Clean Air Act to so-called "clean coal technology" would raise the cost of electricity by a third, the Department of Energy said yesterday.Reducing carbon dioxide and other emissions from these plants, which are mostly in the Midwest and the South, in order to prevent global warming -- something that may not be happening anyway -- would add $9 billion a year to the cost of electricity, according to Mary J. Hutzler, acting head of the Energy information Administration, a unit of the DOE.Testifying before the Senate Environment and public Works Committee, Hutzler said electricity from the grandfathered plants will cost 33 percent more by 2020 than it would if carbon dioxide were continued to be treated as a non-polluting byproduct of combustion and a lot of other things.Human beings exhale carbon dioxide when they breathe. Growing plants consume carbon dioxide in the process of photosynthesis, and emit pure oxygen in its place.Committee Chairman Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, the Independent who made news when he defected from the Republican Party and tilted the balance of the U.S. Senate in favor of the Democrats, accused Hutzler and the Bush administration of disregarding what he claims are $59 billion in health benefits that would accompany carbon dioxide reductions.Jeffords is author of pending legislation that would place carbon dioxide on the list of regulated pollutants. The Energy Department says his proposal would raise the total cost of electricity in the U.S. from $2.031 trillion to $2.208 trillion over the next 20 years.Annual costs, taking into account a decline in consumption of household goods and services as money is diverted to pay for power, would be up to $30 billion.As many as a third of existing coal-fired power plants would be shut down rather than upgraded as a side-effect of Jeffords' bill, the EIA said.Ohio Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican, said Jeffords' bill would be "a disaster for my state and for the manufacturing base of the United States. I'm talking about the lifeblood of my state. This legislation is a threat to my economy," he said. "The bottom line is it ain't gonna happen. The president said if it's got carbon in it, he's going to kill it."
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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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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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