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LCG, April 30, 2026--OG&E, the operating subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp., announced today that it will power three new data centers that Google announced in Muskogee and Stillwater, Oklahoma last year. As part of the agreement, Google will also make power generation capacity available from two solar facilities in Stephens and Muskogee Counties that are currently under construction. The data centers and associated Electric Service Agreements are expected to provide economic growth for local communities and the state, contribute to grid stability, and benefit OG&E's current customers.
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LCG, April 29, 2026--Graphic Packaging Holding Company today announced a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with NextEra Energy Resources, LLC. With the VPPA agreement, NextEra Energy Resources plans to build the Selenite Springs Energy Center, a 250-MW solar energy facility in West Texas, and Graphic Packaging will be the sole buyer of the facility's renewable energy attribute certificates. Graphic Packaging, a global provider of sustainable consumer packaging, expects the agreement to cover approximately 43 percent of its 2025 electricity usage in the U.S. and Canada. The agreement will advance Graphic Packaging's commitment to source renewable electricity and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Industry News
California Adopts Six-Month Plant Licensing Regulations
LCG, Nov. 16, 2000--The California Energy Commission yesterday voted unanimously to adopt emergency regulations for a new six-month power plant licensing process that will allow some power plants to be licensed and come on-line more quickly.Power projects that qualify for the speedy treatment are those which would have raised no eyebrows in the first place. In other words, the commission has done nothing to speed up the permitting of run-of-the-mill power plants which are the kind the state needs.A qualifying project will be one that could be licensed with a phone call.- It must meet all local, state and federal air quality rules including best available control technology requirements and have contracts for required air emission offsets.
- It must not cause adverse water impacts or require new appropriations of water. The commission said it will look kindly on projects that are air-cooled.
- It must be in full compliance with all land use requirements, including the general plans and zoning requirements of local government bodies.
- It must avoid "significant natural resource impacts," which means it cannot interfere with spotted owls, snail darters, rare wild mushrooms or the salt marsh mouse. I would help if it looked pretty, too.
- It must achieve efficient use of fuels.
- If you're a power plant developer and you can do all that you can get a permit in six months or maybe even sooner. But you will have to have already settled with local jurisdictions.
- All agencies will be required to provide their input within 100 days of when the commission accepts the application and the so-called "discovery" process much abused by anti-power plant activists will be held within "certain time frames," the commission said.
- If something goes wrong with a "fast track" application, the developer can move it to what the commission calls its "standard 12-month review process" without preparing a new application. Sometimes the 12-month process takes three years.
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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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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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