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SPP's Western Expansion Set for Implementation on April 1

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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Entergy Estimates Customer Savings of $5B from "Fair Share Plus" Data Center Agreements

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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California Approves Enron 750 Megawatt Plant

LCG, Dec. 21, 2000--Enron North America said yesterday that it has received unanimous approval from the California Energy Commission for its 750 megawatt Pastoria Energy Facility, which is located in Kern County, southwest of Bakersfield. The project was announced in late 1998.

"This decision represents our second permit of an efficient, clean-burning power plant that will helpCalifornia overcome the tremendous energy shortfall the state has experienced this year," said DavidParquet, vice president, Enron North America.

The company recently sold its first project in California, the 508 megawatt Pittsburg District EnergyFacility, to Calpine Corp., which renamed it Los Medanos Energy Center, will build it and have it in commercial operation next year.

Parquet said "We have more than 2,000 megawatts of additional new projects under development in California, and we're eager to move forward with these plans to provide more generating capacity to the state."

So long as Californians keep burning megawatts as if they were free, the state need all the power plants it can get.

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