News
LCG, May 8, 2025--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Board of Directors approved SPP’s proposed Expedited Resource Adequacy Study (ERAS) at its May 6 meeting. SPP developed the new ERAS in collaboration with its stakeholders in response to the growing need to add new generating resources before the region’s generating capacity is outpaced by its electricity demands. ERAS is intended to be a one-time, expedited study process designed to significantly accelerate the addition of new power generation facilities to the grid and address concerns about the near term ability to maintain the affordable and reliable electric service that consumers expect.
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LCG, May 7, 2025--EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA) announced yesterday the inauguration of its Scarlet II Solar Energy Park (Scarlet II) in Fresno County, California. This phase of the solar plus energy storage project includes 200 MW of solar capacity, plus a co-located 150 MW/600 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). The initial phase of the project, Scarlet I, which provides 200 MW of solar and 40 MW/160 MWh of BESS, achieved commercial operations in July 2024.
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Industry News
Construction Begins on Silver Star Wind Project in Texas
LCG, September 13, 2007--Construction commenced yesterday on the Silver Star Project in west central Texas. The 60-MW wind farm will include twenty-four, 2.5 MW Liberty Wind Turbines are manufactured by Clipper Windpower in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Clipper will own 15% of the project, and BP Alternative Energy will own 85%. The project is scheduled to begin commercial operations in early 2008. The Silver Star Project is being built in Eastland and Erath Counties and will dispersed over a 54,000 acre site. According to the developers, the footprint of the project facilities will use less than one the percent of the total area, which will continue to be used for ranching.
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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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