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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
California Utilities Cite Uncertainty
LCG, Apr. 18, 2003--Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison, two of California's major investor-owned utilities, filed 20-year plans with the California Public Utilities Commission this week that underlined crucial questions about their future mode of operations.PG&E may be able to emerge from bankruptcy in 2004, but was not ready to enter into long-term agreements due to the hazy status of direct access, a program that allowed power suppliers to sign contracts with large customers. New customers have not been allowed to take part in direct access since September 2001, and there is still controversy over how much direct access participants should pay for utility-related costs. Without knowing if direct access could be renewed, the utilities have found it difficult to estimate their future customer bases.SoCalEdison's management would like to be able to make long-term agreements concerning generation and transmission, but still is waiting for indications of whether or not dedicated plants under its control can be built, regardless of who owns them. It has no plans to build plants at the present time, however. A bill has been introduced in the California state Senate that would give support to plants being built by the utilities, with guaranteed cost recovery. While Southern California Edison has expressed some willingness to construct new generation, PG&E is opposed to becoming involved again in the business of building plants.Both utilities plan to spend more on energy efficiency programs, $100 million and $300 million for SoCalEdison and PG&E respectively. The California Public Utilities Commission will conduct hearings to review the 20-year plans in July, and should return a decision in November, according to SoCalEdison's vice president of strategy and development, Pedro Pizarro.
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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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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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