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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
ERCOT Ready for Texas Dereg on New Year's Day
LCG, Dec. 7, 2001--With the Public Utilities Commission of Texas set to give the final green light for retail electric competition in the Lone Star State, the state's independent system operator says it is ready for the January 1 opening of the electric market.The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, one of ten regional councils of the north American Electric Reliability Council, is the ISO for the state, and will manage its transmission system under deregulation."Fundamentally, I think it (is) clear to everyone that the system is ready to go forward," Tom Noel, ERCOT chief executive, said. "Unless we have a major hiccup, we expect to be in full retail choice operations on January 1, 2002."Final go-ahead for the program could come today at the PUCT's Friday meeting, or early next week. At today's meeting, the commission is expected to set a base price for Texas' local utilities to charge customers.Local utilities would not be allowed to sell power below the base price, which would be the price that alternative suppliers would have to beat to induce customers to switch. The base price will remain in effect for three years or until a utility loses 40 percent of its customers to competition."This is intended to set a bright line against which new competitors can compete," Noel said.Noel expects none of the problems that afflicted California's attempt to deregulate its electric industry. "We've been working hard on this for seven years. California worked on it only two. And we've had a retail pilot program in place for the past seven months, which gave us a chance to work out the bugs," he said.
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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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