|
News
|
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.
Read more
|
|
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.
Read more
|
|
|
Industry News
Re-regulation of Energy Derivatives Encounters Opposition
LCG, Mar. 21, 2002--A measure in a bill sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would bring energy derivatives back under regulatory supervision is being opposed by Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tex. and other Republican senators.Oversight of over-the-counter swaps and trading on electronic exchanges, such as Enron Online, ended with passage of the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Gramm, supported in his opposition by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, said that a connection between lack of oversight and the collapse of Enron was false. Swaps, often used to substitute fixed price purchases for floating price purchases, are typically used to manage and hedge risk. Trading in derivatives was a highly profitable activity for Enron.Feinstein said in a Senate floor speech, "there is no transparency, no record-keeping and no oversight of trades...We do not know the price of terms for 90 per cent of the energy transactions that take place." She alleged that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission lacks oversight necessary to investigate fully what role derivatives trading might have played during the California power crisis.A letter to Gramm from Greenspan and O'Neill said that reviving oversight of derivatives "could re-introduce legal uncertainties into off-exchange derivatives markets and other markets." They said that derivatives' contribution to risk-management would be harmed by regulation.The Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was passed with strong assistance from Gramm, the former banking committee chairman. He and his wife, Wendy Gramm, had strong relationships with Enron officials. Mrs. Gramm served on the company audit committee.
|
|
|
|
UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
|
|
|
UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
|
|
|
UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
|
|
|
PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
|
|
|
|
|
