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NextEra Energy and Google Collaborate on Accelerating Nuclear Power Deployment

LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.

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Google Announces Gas-fired Broadwing Energy Project with CCS

LCG, October 23, 2025--Google announced today a first-of-its kind agreement to support a natural gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The 400-MW Broadwing Energy power project, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By agreeing to buy most of the power it generates, Google is helping get this new, baseload power source built and connected to the regional grid that supports our data centers.

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Southern in Deal to Bid on Enel Generation Unit

LCG, July 28, 2000--The Southern Co. of the U.S. and Italian conglomerate CIR said in a joint statement this morning that they "will create a consortium with the aim of buying one of the generatingcompanies that (Italys state-owned electric company) Enel must sell in the upcoming months."

Under rules adopted by the European Commission, Enel will have to divest itself of some 15,000 megawatts of generation by 2003. On order to do so, the company is forming separate generation companies grouping its power plants.

In their statement, Southern and CIR said "The two largest companies, Eurogen of 7,000 megawatts and Electrogen of 5,400 megawatts, are particularly interesting."

Southerns investment would be made through its Southern Energy subsidiary, which already has a European presence with its majority interest in Germanys Bewag and a power trading company in The Netherlands.

"CIR and Southern Energy intend to develop their generating activity and commercialization of energy to create one of the leading Italian groups and an important operator at a European level," the statement said.

Southern Energy may also build new natural gas-fired power plants in Italy, the statement added.

CIR would make its investment through a subsidiary, Energia Italiana.

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