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OG&E and Google Announce Contract for Three Data Centers in Oklahoma

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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Graphic Packaging and NextEra Energy Resources Sign 250-MW Virtual Power Purchase Agreement

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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Frisco Voters Approve Municipal Utility

LCG, Nov. 7, 2001--With all but about 9,000 absentee ballots counted this morning, a proposition to create a municipal utility in San Francisco appeared to have won by a 51 to 49 percent vote.

It may be a while before the absentee votes are counted. Yesterday, the envelopes containing them were taken to an auditorium instead of City Hall for fear that any possible anthrax contamination could close down the building.

Officials said they had received no threats but were just playing it safe. "It would be remiss to say that there are no fears of that," said Tammy Haygood, director of the Department of Elections, referring to anthrax. "We had no known threat of that."

Proposition F, one of two measures on yesterday's ballot that would create a municipal utility, seems to have won, but a second measure, Proposition I that would have included the town of Brisbane, appears to have lost by the same 51 to 49 percent margin. In Brisbane, voters rejected the proposal with 760 against and 190 in favor.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which had campaigned vigorously against both measures, may have shot itself in the foot. On Monday, its parent holding company, PG&E Corp., announced a 243 percent increase in profits for the third quarter.

PG&E did not concede defeat, saying this morning in a statement "Voters saw through the MUD proposal and realized it did not offer a solution to the power generation crisis." The company did not explain how it saw a 51 to 49 vote in favor of Proposition F as rejection.

Proposition F, if it is eventually declared the winner and withstands expected court challenges, would allow an elected board to declare eminent domain and buy PG&E's electric distribution system, for what the utility fears would be pennies on the dollar.

Proponents of the measure pointed to Los Angeles, where the Department of Water and Power not only kept the lights on during the worst of the California power crunch when rolling blackouts plagued much of the state but had power to spare, selling it to California at market prices.

There is a difference. The LADWP owns its own generation, with a healthy reserve capacity. San Francisco owns only three dams on the Hetch Hetchy water system. They have a maximum capacity of 334.5 megawatts, about a third of San Francisco's standard load, and have that power only when there is plenty of water in the rivers of the Sierra Nevadas.

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