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SPP and Member Utilities Successfully Achieve Western Expansion Milestone

LCG, April 2, 2026--Southwest Power Pool (SPP) today announced that the expansion of its service territory into the Western Interconnection has been a success. The milestone makes SPP the first regional transmission organization (RTO) with services spanning the Eastern and Western Interconnections. Its member organizations, which cover all or part of 17 states, can now benefit from a more operationally and geographically diverse integrated system.

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Holtec Achieves Milestone towards Restarting Palisades Nuclear Facility and Advances Plans to Build Two SMRs at Palisades Site

LCG, March 31, 2026--Holtec International yesterday announced that it successfully completed a milestone test necessary to return Holtec's Palisades Nuclear Generating Station to service. The 805-MW pressurized water reactor (PWR) is located in Michigan and was shut down by Entergy in May 2022. Holtec acquired the facility in June 2022 and has pursued a path to return the plant to service.

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Entergy, NYPA Close Sale of Indian Point 3, FitzPatrick

LCG, Nov. 22, 2000--Entergy Corp. and the New York Power Authority yesterday closed the sale ofNYPA's two nuclear power plants, Indian Point unit 3 in Buchanan, N.Y., and the James A. FitzPatrick plant near Oswego, N.Y. The two organizations announced the deal last March.

Entergy said in a statement that the acquisition is its largest yet in its nuclear growth program and, at $967 million, is the highest price yet paid for nuclear assets in the U.S.

Entergy Nuclear Northeast now has three plants to operate. Entergy purchased the Pilgrim NuclearStation at Plymouth, Mass., in July 1999 from Boston Edison Co. in the first sale in the U.S. of anuclear power plant in a competitive bidding process.

With Indian Point 3 wrapped up, Entergy will now pursue its acquisition of Indian Point 2 and the mothballed Unit 1 from Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, and hopes to close that transaction by next summer. Con Edison is replacing the steam generators in Indian Point 2 and hopes to have the plant running by the end of the year.

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