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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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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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Industry News
Carbon Sequestration Project Deemed Success by DOE
LCG, November 16, 2005--The Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday that, as part of a DOE-funded project, five million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) has been successfully sequestered into the Weyburn Oilfield in Saskatchewan, Canada, while doubling the fields oil recovery rate.The Weyburn CO2 Storage and Monitoring Project receives CO2 transported from the Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota, where the CO2 is a byproduct of the coal gasification process. At the Weyburn Oilfield, the CO2 is injected into the oilfield to increase the pressure and the percent of oil recovered from the field.With typical enhanced oil recovery practices using water, the quantity of an oil field's reserves can increase from 10 percent to as high as 20 to 40 percent. With the practices developed using CO2 at the Weyburn Oilfield, there is the potential to recover 60 percent of the reserves, according to the DOE.The initial phase of the Weyburn Project shows promise for both extracting more energy from existing oil fields and sequestering CO2 to reduce greenhouse gases. Furthermore, it demonstrates the viability of developing coal-fired, power stations using an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant design as part of a strategy to capture and sequester CO2. With the IGCC design, the generation process includes coal gasification, with the gas from the coal passed through a gas turbine to generate electricity. The hot exhaust gas from the turbine heats water to produce steam to power a steam turbine and generate electricity a second time. The gasification process included in the IGCC design enables the CO2 to be readily separated, and the economics to capture and sequester CO2 associated with an IGCC plant are expected to be significantly better than those associated with a traditional, pulverized coal plant.The next phase of the project will be to develop a best practices manual to support the design and implementation of CO2 sequestration in conjunction with enhanced oil recovery projects. Participants in the Weyburn Project include the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan; the oilfield operator, EnCana Corporation of Calgary, Alberta; the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as industry and government organizations in Canada, Japan, and the European Commission.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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