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LCG, April 24, 2025--Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) announced yesterday an agreement with Calpine Corporation (Calpine) to transport and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons per annum (MTA) of CO2 from Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center, a natural gas-fired facility located near Houston, Texas. This is part of Calpine’s Baytown Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project that is designed to add CCS for the facility’s CO2 emissions. The Calpine facility could then provide a 24/7 supply of low-carbon electricity to the Texas grid plus steam to nearby industrial facilities.
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LCG, April 21, 2025--NovaSource Power Services ("NovaSource") recently announced that it has partnered with Doral Renewables and has been selected as the Operations and Maintenance ("O&M") and Generator Operator ("GO") for the Mammoth Solar Project, one of the largest agrivoltaics facilities in the United States.
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Industry News
CA Utility's Deregulation Suit Tentatively Dismissed
LCG, January 9, 2003-Pacific Gas & Electric Company's suit against California regarding price regulation has been tentatively dismissed.PG&E, the utility and unit of PG&E Corporation, claims that electricity from its nuclear and hydroelectric generating facilities was unfairly subject to regulation by the California Public Utilities Commission in the beginning of 2001.According to PG&E, California allowed the company's generators to sell electricity at market prices by the passing of AB 1890. During the energy crisis, the state passed AB 6X, which kept the nuclear and hydro power under state price regulation.PG&E claims that AB 6X is the equivalent of breach of contract, as the company believes AB 1890 functions as a contract. The company asserts it lost $4.1 billion as a result of state controlled prices. Superior Court Judge Joe Gray found that the initial law did not constitute a contract, although his ruling is only tentative.The case comes at a time when California is trying to find the source of the spiking electricity prices of 2000 and 2001. Energy suppliers have insisted that limited generating capacity and the high price of natural gas, which fuels many generators in California, forced up the price of electricity that they produced. Therefore, market price for electricity in general was very high. As PG&E's production costs for hydro and nuclear generation were not dependent on the price of natural gas, it could have earned higher returns from the market.PG&E is slated to emerge from its bankruptcy some time this year, although its legal route to recovery is still being argued in court.
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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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