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.
Read more
|
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.
Read more
|
|
|
Industry News
Entergy Announces Agreement to Sell Gas-fired Power Plant in New England
LCG, October 9, 2015-Entergy Corp. yesterday announced that its wholesale generation division, Entergy Wholesale Commodities, has entered into an agreement to sell its 583-MW Rhode Island State Energy Center to Carlyle Power Partners. The base sales price is approximately $490 million, subject to closing adjustments. The transaction is expected to close by the end of this year.
The Rhode Island State Energy Center (RISEC) is a natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generating facility located about five miles from Providence, Rhode Island. Entergy Wholesale Commodities purchased the plant from NextEra Energy Resources, LLC for $346 million in December 2011. The facility entered commercial service in 2002.
Entergy Chairman and CEO stated, "Our strategy for EWC is focused on being disciplined about reducing risk and freeing up financial resources for other opportunities. RISEC has been a very good investment for us, and its sale is consistent with that strategy."
|
|
|
UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
|
|
UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
|
|
UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
|
|
PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
|
|
|
|