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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
LG&E and KU Authorized to Exit Midwest ISO
LCG, June 2, 2006--The Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) on Wednesday authorized Louisville Gas & Electric Co. (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Co. (KU) to withdraw from the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO), the regional electric system operator that had a service territory extending from eastern Montana through the upper Midwest - including Manitoba - and south to parts of Kentucky and Missouri.
In a two-to-one vote, the PSC ruled that the exodus from the MISO would reduce costs and maintain local control over key aspects of the utilities? operations. In dissenting, Chairman Mark David Goss stated that the withdrawal would leave Kentucky in a weak position to influence electric policy during the inevitable regionalization of transmission assets and markets.
On March 17, 2006, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted conditional approval to LG&E and KU to withdraw from the MISO. The PSC's authorization enables both utilities to proceed with the withdrawal from the MISO.
LG&E and KU plan to resume control over their transmission facilities. The utilities propose to use the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to provide transmission reliability coordination services and to use the Southeast Power Pool (SPP) to address electric power marketing rules. Agreements with TVA and SPP are the subject of current, separate proceedings before the PSC.
LG&E and KU became members of the MISO in 1998. The MISO formally began commercial operations of its new, Day-Ahead and Real-Time electricity markets on April 1, 2005. Elements of the new market design include centralized, security-constrained unit commitment; security-constrained economic dispatch; locational marginal pricing (LMP); and a market for financial transmission rights (FTRs).
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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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