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LCG, February 2, 2026--Ontario Power Generation (OPG) announced today that construction on the four-unit Darlington Refurbishment project is now complete. Station staff are completing final testing, and the last unit is expected to return to service in the coming weeks. OPG stated that the overall project is currently four months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget.
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LCG, January 30, 2026--The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) yesterday issued its 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) and infographic that spotlight intensifying resource adequacy risks throughout the North American bulk power system (BPS) over the next 10 years.
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Industry News
Transmission Constraints a Concern in Texas Dereg
LCG, March 23, 2001With the beginning of electric competition set to start in Texas with a pilot program for 5 percent of retail customers on June 1, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state's transmission grid, says getting power from here to there in the huge state is its biggest concern.Casting an eye to California where insufficient power supply has caused most of that state's problems, Tom Noel, chief executive of ERCOT, said "Capacity is not the only issue. Serving this 200,000 square miles of territory and 6 million customers requires an awful lot of transmission, distribution and wire."Speaking at the Houston Energy Expo, Noel pointed out that Texas' generating capacity stands at 65,000 megawatts and its peak demand last summer was 57,000 megawatts, giving the state a 14 percent safety margin. To handle growth in its population and economy, 22 new power plants have been built in the state in the past five years, 15 are under construction and 30 are on the drawing board, he said.But Noel point out, "Also important are the (transmission) constraints that exist." He said there were portions of the state where "You can't get (power) from here to there."Noel said transmission will be squeezed from South Texas north to Dallas, inside the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, from the Rio Grande Valley to Austin and San Antonio and from West Texas to the eastern part of the state.Full deregulation of the Texas retail power market is scheduled to begin on Jan. 1, 2002, and Noel said both ERCOT and state regulators are committed to meeting that schedule. But ERCOT will conduct a mock market a week from Monday, on April 2, and, citing delays in setting up computer systems and testing them, Noel warns "It's not going to be pretty."
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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