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LCG, June 26, 2025--Invenergy today announced that they and Meta Platforms, Inc. have signed four new clean energy agreements that total an additional 791 MW of procured solar and wind capacity to support Meta's near-term operations, data center growth, and clean energy goals.
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LCG, June 23, 2025--The Governor of New York today directed the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to develop and construct an advanced nuclear power plant in upstate New York to deliver zero-emission power that supports a reliable and affordable electric grid. NYPA will lead the effort to develop at least one new nuclear energy facility with a combined capacity of at least one gigawatt (GW) of electricity, either alone or in partnership with private entities. The directive builds on the Governor’s 2025 State of the State to develop nuclear energy plans in New York.
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Industry News
AEP Cuts Back Speculative Trading
LCG, Oct. 11, 2002--Liquidity in energy trading is likely to decline further, following the announcement yesterday by American Electric Power Co. (AEP) that it will significantly reduce the resources it had devoted to speculative trading.A top trader at AEP, Rick Snowdon, departed from the company in May along with others who worked with him, citing personal reasons for leaving. This had led some at other firms to infer that AEP had incurred losses on its trading operations. The company applied to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas in September to mothball older coal-fired generators which had served the Texas market, a market which has more than adequate supplies of power.A significant amount of AEP's coal-fired generation will continue to supply the Midwest with inexpensive power. AEP's overall generation portfolio totals 42,000 megawatts. The company's earnings estimates for the current year have been cut by 11 percent, AEP chairman, chief executive and president Linn Draper said Thursday. Draper stated that the company "is painfully aware that the current market conditions won't reward the scope and scale of our trading and marketing business that we built over the last several years.A trader quoted by Reuters said, "These things make trading conditions that much more difficult. They are causing everybody to be that much more conservative in who they trade with and make it more costly to trade." Much of speculative trading involves contracts based on estimates of the future price of power.
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