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SPP's Western Expansion Set for Implementation on April 1

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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Entergy Estimates Customer Savings of $5B from "Fair Share Plus" Data Center Agreements

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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Xcel Wants to Build New Comanche Station Unit

LCG, Feb. 24, 2004--A third unit with a capacity of 750 megawatts is planned by Xcel at its Comanche Station plant, and would start construction by 2005 or 2006.

A town meeting in Pueblo, Colo., was informed that Xcel will seek the environmental permits necessary, and that the company hopes to have completed that phase of development by late 2005. Overall, the company has plans to expand its ability to serve demand by 3,000 megawatts, and will provide approximately half of the output necessary with its own new generating units. The new unit will be built in Pueblo, based on negotiations with officials there that have been completed.

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