News
LCG, July 30, 2025--Peak Energy today announced the launch and shipment of its sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) that includes a patent-pending passive cooling design that should significantly reduce lifetime energy costs. Peak Energy's system is to be deployed this summer in a shared pilot project with nine utility and independent power producer (IPP) customers.
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LCG, July 29, 2025--The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) today reported third quarter fiscal year 2025 financial results, including $9.8 billion in total operating revenues on 121 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity sales for the nine months ending June 30, 2025. TVA reported total operating revenues had increased 11 percent over the same period last year, primarily due to higher rates and sales. TVA presented that sales of electricity increased 3 percent compared to the same period last year, primarily due to higher sales to residential and small customers, as well as increases within the data processing, hosting, and related services sector.
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Industry News
California May Renegotiate Power Contracts
LCG, Jan. 10, 2002--A series of ongoing meetings have brought representatives from the governor's office and state agencies into talks with power sellers concerning existing power supply contracts worth $43 billion over the next seven to ten years.The contracts were signed during a time of soaring wholesale prices for power bought on the spot market, and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission instituted price caps. The companies participating so far include Calpine Corp., Dynegy Inc., PacifiCorp, Sempra Energy and Williams Cos..The representatives of the state, who also include members of the state Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources and the state attorney general's office, have already pursued the dismissal of contracts for reasons of improprieties which may have led to the contracts' signing, and have looked to the FERC for rulings against some of them. In some cases, power bought at $121 per megawatt may not be needed and could be sold out-of-state for $19 per megawatt.Of the 50 long-term contracts, 6 supply a disproportionate share of the power being purchased. In addition to the cost, the state's Joint Legislative Audit Committee found that the contracts are insufficient in terms of reliability.The power companies hold to their view that the deals they and the state entered into last year were fair. At the same time, Calpine spokeswoman Katherine Potter said, "We're happy to sit down and work with our customers...if there'sa way we can reach a mutual agreement, we're happy to work with them."
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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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