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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
CPUC Won't Vote on California Bonds Today
LCG, Sept. 13, 2001--The California Public Utilities Commission said yesterday it would not vote on measures involving the state's pending issue of $12.5 billion bonds to cover the cost of power purchases already made and those to be made in the future.Since January, the California Department of Water Resources, acting as a sort of purchasing agent for the state's cash-strapped investor-owned utilities, has bought about $11 billion with of wholesale power in the spot market, using money from the state's general fund. In addition, the agency has negotiated something like $43 billion in long-term power purchase contracts stretching out for the next 10 or 20 years.When it does get around to deciding the bond measures, the CPUC will set up the legal and financial framework for the CDRW's power purchases, including how ratepayer revenues are used to service and repay the debt incurred by the bond issue.The Commission said it would hold its regular Thursday meeting today, but would be unable to take up the bond issue and other items on its agenda because the agency was closed following the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.California Gov. Gray Davis had intended to market the bonds last May, but the state legislature denied him the two-thirds majority that would have made the bond legislation effective immediately. State Treasurer Phil Angelides, has set an October 31 deadline for bringing the bonds to market and said the CPUC delay should not affect that so long as the Commission issues its orders by the end of this month.A key element that must be decided by the CPUC is how much of ratepayer revenues to allocate to the utilities to cover past power purchases and how much to give the CDWR to back the bond issue. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has vowed to go to court if it feels the burden of bond support is placed too heavily on its customers.Angelides admits a drawn-out court fight would thrown a monkey wrench into the state's plans to issue the bonds.
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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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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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