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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
Virginia's Transitional Rates Draw Notice by Suppliers
LCG, Jan. 15, 2002--The announcement of Virginia retail rates by the State Corporation Commission gives potential power suppliers a benchmark against which to consider supply offers.The key figure is the "price to compare," to which a transition charge is added. The "price to compare" is the price a supplier will have to beat in order to draw a customer looking for a less expensive alternative to Virginia Power; those who do not switch do not pay the transition charge. Until price caps are lifted in 2007, any customer switching to an alternate supplier for electricity will pay a transition charge. That charge was established to compensate utiltiies for investments that were put in place before deregulation.Some companies with the potential to become competitive suppliers have testified before the General Assembly subcommittee dealing with electric deregulation that the charge, which is 2.13 cents per kilowatt-hour, will hinder competition from taking root as long as it is kept in place. Such companies as Old Mill Power Co. of Charlottesville and AES New Energy Inc. may buy wholesale power and then sell it to retail customers, meaning they do not require their own generation resources. Pepco Energy Services has been the first and only company to offer customers an alternative during 2002, when deregulation began in Virginia. Its rates, which are for "green power," exceed those of Virginia Power by 2 cents per kilowatt-hour when the transition charge is added. Dominion Retail, which is part of the same corporate entity as Virginia Power, was a supplier in an early pilot program, and will continue to be a supplier.Any supplier that wants to be competitive with Virginia Power will need to offer a rate of 3.671 cents per kilowatt-hour or less.
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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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