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LCG, March 13, 2026--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) announced yesterday that leaders from the participating organizations voted unanimously to proceed as planned with expanding its regional transmission organization (RTO) services into the Western Interconnection. SPP sees the decision to proceed as planned as a strong signal of confidence as SPP and its partner utilities prepare for this key milestone, which will occur overnight between March 31 and April 1.
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LCG, March 6, 2026--Entergy yesterday announced approximately $5 billion in total savings for 2.3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi resulting from data center customer agreements in those states. Entergy, which completed its first data center customer agreement in 2024, projects the customer savings over the next 20 years and after the regulatory approval or acknowledgement of the public service commissions in those states.
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Industry News
Class Action Seeks Refunds from California Power Firms
LCG, Nov. 30, 2000--A class action suit, filed yesterday in San Diego Superior Court, claims that a baker's dozen electricity companies violated antitrust and consumer protection laws by manipulating prices in California's electric power market.The suit, filed on behalf of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. customers, seeks class action status on behalf of all residential and business customers in California. If granted, the plaintiff lawyers would have a much larger pool of potential litigants to draw upon.As filed, the suit seeks to recover initially at least $1 billion in alleged overpayments to SDG&E, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy Inc.Lead lawyer in the suit is Leonard Simon, a veteran of class-action antitrust cases, who helped win a $1 billion settlement three years ago from Wall Street firms accused of inflating Nasdaq stock prices. Also involved is Michael Aguirre, who said court action is necessary because federal and state regulators have bungled the job.In the lawyers' eyes, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission bungled the job when its chairman, James Hoecker, said his agency lacked authority to order refunds.Yesterday, Simon said he was confident he would be able to unearth evidence of collusion because he and his fellow class-action litigators are willing to take the time to dig deeper than bureaucrats. "It's going to take years," he said.Mark Palmer, a spokesman for Enron Corp., a defendant in the case, said the lawsuit was without merit. "Three separate independent government regulatory agencies have investigated these allegations (of collusion) and found none to be true," he said. Defendants named in the suit include: Duke Energy Trading and Marketing, a unit of Duke Energy Corp.; Dynegy Power Marketing Inc.; Enron Energy Services; Enron Power Marketing Inc.; Morgan Stanley Capital Group; NRG Energy Inc.; PG&E Energy Trading, a unit of PG&E Corp.; Reliant Energy Services, a unit of Reliant Energy Inc.; Sempra Energy Trading and Sempra Energy Resources, units of Sempra Energy Inc.; Southern Company Energy Marketing; Williams Energy Marketing and Trading; and Williams Energy Services Co.
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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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