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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
Rollcast Announces Financial Closing for Georgia Biomass Project
LCG, October 22, 2010--Rollcast Energy, Inc. ("Rollcast") yesterday announced the closing of non-recourse, project financing for Rollcast's first greenfield biomass power project, Piedmont Green Power, LLC. The electricity generated by the 53.5-MW power plant will be purchased by Georgia Power under a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA). The project site is approximately 70 miles southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
Piedmont Green Power is scheduled to commence operations by the fourth quarter of 2012, and the Project's EPC contractor will be released to start construction immediately. Rollcast developed the project and will be manage the facility.
The power plant will consume approximately 500,000 tons of woody biomass per year, all of it sourced from the surrounding area.
The positive step forward for this biomass project is somewhat of a national anomaly, given the rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) earlier this year that have stalled many biomass power projects. Contrary to past understandings that biomass project are carbon neutral, the EPA's Tailoring Rule regulates emissions from the combustion of biomass the same as emissions from the combustion of fossil fuel. With the EPA's new position, biomass power plants are not deemed carbon neutral, placing new risk on biomass power plants for carbon emissions. Moreover, the EPA's proposed Industrial Boiler MACT rule created additional problems for biomass power producers earlier this year by setting emission limits that will be difficult if not impossible to achieve. The EPA may issue changes more favorable to biomass to both rules in early 2011.
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