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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
FERC to Attempt to Prevent Utility Market Power
LCG, Apr. 14, 2004--The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Pat Wood, has put in place interim rules that establish criteria that may be used to determine whether utilities have market power, and should therefore not be allowed to sell electricity at market prices.As part of the order containing the new tests of market power, FERC is allowing American Electric Power (AEP), Entergy Corp. and Southern Co. to respond with their own findings regarding the tests the agency has devised, and their service territories. One of the tests is intended to measure whether a company is a supplier with indispensable resources to satisfy market demand at the annual peak demand. The other test works similarly, but on a seasonal, rather than annual, basis.The results of the tests will not be considered absolute indicators of the existence of market power. Rather, companies may put forth their own tools for analysis. Additionally, companies may point to others as having market power, using their own criteria. Those utilities found to have market power will need to propose solutions for blocking the exercise of the market power. The primary method available and recognized so far is for utilities to sell electricity based on their costs.
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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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