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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
St. Lucie County Blocks FPL's Proposed Coal Plant
LCG, November 9, 2005--The St. Lucie County Commission unanimously voted to block the development of a new coal plant in the Bluefield area proposed by Florida Power & Light (FPL). The opposition from local officials and citizens was largely tied to perceived environmental impacts associated with burning coal, rather than the construction and operation of a new power plant. FPL announced its plans in February to build a new, coal-fired station in St. Lucie County in order to meet Florida's growing demand for electricity. The proposal was to construct two, 850-MW units that employ a supercritical pulverized coal design. The first unit was to begin operations in 2012, with the second unit generating power in 2013.The project was proposed following a study published by the State of Florida that was generally favorable towards the development of new coal plants. In that most of the generation installed in Florida over the past ten years is gas-fired, the development of new coal plants would provide for greater fuel diversity.With Florida's growing electricity requirements and the new heights that natural gas prices have reached, a number of new coal plants are under consideration at this time. In July, Tallahassee Electric Utility, JEA, Florida Municipal Power Agency and the Reedy Creek Improvement District announced that they are exploring the development of an 800-MW, $1.4 billion coal plant in northern Florida. The new station would be operational in 2012. In March, Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc. announced plans to add a third, 750-MW coal-fired unit at its existing 1,300 MW Seminole Generating Station. Like the JEA project, the target date for operations is in 2012. Seminole states that the new capacity is needed to provide reliable, economical energy supplies to its ten member systems in Florida.Roughly a year ago, Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) and Southern Power, the unregulated subsidiary of Southern Company, announced plans to develop a 285-MW, advanced coal plant to be built at OUC's existing Stanton Energy Center near Orlando, Florida. The operational date for this project is 2010. Gainesville Regional Utilities has also explored the development of a 220-MW, coal-fired plant, with operations planned for 2011.If other local governments follow the path taken by St. Lucie County, it will be interesting to see how Florida manages to supply its demand for electricity.
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