News
LCG, April 29, 2025--Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) today outlining the state’s plans to administer programs related to carbon storage wells, known as Class VI wells. The MOA signing is a required step in the RRC’s application to be granted authority to permit Class VI wells in the state of Texas. EPA is currently preparing a proposed approval of RRC’s primacy application.
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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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Industry News
LCG releases new ERCOT Electricity Market Outlook reports
LCG, January 11, 2013 –LCG Consulting (LCG) of Los Altos, California recently released its assessment and forecast of ERCOT operations for 2013. Extended simulations are also available for the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The standard reports outline the results of comprehensive hourly simulations of market operations in the ERCOT region including forecasts of key metrics such as load zone and hub prices, ancillary service prices, congested transmission lines, wind production and curtailment, valuation of congestion revenue rights and other information of interest to market participants. Customized details can also be extracted from the modeling results.
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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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