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OG&E and Google Announce Contract for Three Data Centers in Oklahoma

LCG, April 30, 2026--OG&E, the operating subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp., announced today that it will power three new data centers that Google announced in Muskogee and Stillwater, Oklahoma last year. As part of the agreement, Google will also make power generation capacity available from two solar facilities in Stephens and Muskogee Counties that are currently under construction. The data centers and associated Electric Service Agreements are expected to provide economic growth for local communities and the state, contribute to grid stability, and benefit OG&E's current customers.

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Graphic Packaging and NextEra Energy Resources Sign 250-MW Virtual Power Purchase Agreement

LCG, April 29, 2026--Graphic Packaging Holding Company today announced a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with NextEra Energy Resources, LLC. With the VPPA agreement, NextEra Energy Resources plans to build the Selenite Springs Energy Center, a 250-MW solar energy facility in West Texas, and Graphic Packaging will be the sole buyer of the facility's renewable energy attribute certificates. Graphic Packaging, a global provider of sustainable consumer packaging, expects the agreement to cover approximately 43 percent of its 2025 electricity usage in the U.S. and Canada. The agreement will advance Graphic Packaging's commitment to source renewable electricity and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Carbon Sequestration Project Deemed Success by DOE

LCG, November 16, 2005--The Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday that, as part of a DOE-funded project, five million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) has been successfully sequestered into the Weyburn Oilfield in Saskatchewan, Canada, while doubling the fields oil recovery rate.

The Weyburn CO2 Storage and Monitoring Project receives CO2 transported from the Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota, where the CO2 is a byproduct of the coal gasification process. At the Weyburn Oilfield, the CO2 is injected into the oilfield to increase the pressure and the percent of oil recovered from the field.

With typical enhanced oil recovery practices using water, the quantity of an oil field's reserves can increase from 10 percent to as high as 20 to 40 percent. With the practices developed using CO2 at the Weyburn Oilfield, there is the potential to recover 60 percent of the reserves, according to the DOE.

The initial phase of the Weyburn Project shows promise for both extracting more energy from existing oil fields and sequestering CO2 to reduce greenhouse gases. Furthermore, it demonstrates the viability of developing coal-fired, power stations using an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant design as part of a strategy to capture and sequester CO2. With the IGCC design, the generation process includes coal gasification, with the gas from the coal passed through a gas turbine to generate electricity. The hot exhaust gas from the turbine heats water to produce steam to power a steam turbine and generate electricity a second time. The gasification process included in the IGCC design enables the CO2 to be readily separated, and the economics to capture and sequester CO2 associated with an IGCC plant are expected to be significantly better than those associated with a traditional, pulverized coal plant.

The next phase of the project will be to develop a best practices manual to support the design and implementation of CO2 sequestration in conjunction with enhanced oil recovery projects. Participants in the Weyburn Project include the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan; the oilfield operator, EnCana Corporation of Calgary, Alberta; the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as industry and government organizations in Canada, Japan, and the European Commission.

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