News
LCG, May 22, 2025--The AES Corporation (AES) yesterday announced that it has entered into two, long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) to support Meta's data centers with 650 MW of solar capacity from two AES projects that will be starting operation in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP). AES expects these two solar projects will provide economic benefits to communities in Texas and Kansas, including hundreds of new construction jobs and contributing millions in long-term tax revenue.
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LCG, May 21, 2025--The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced yesterday that it is the first utility in the U.S. to submit a construction permit application (CPA) for the GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) small modular reactor (SMR) BWRX-300 technology to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The application is TVA's next step in pursuing an SMR at its Clinch River site, near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Preliminary SMR site preparation could begin as soon as 2026.
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Industry News
Private Equity Firm to Buy Eight Duke Power Plants
LCG, May 5, 2004--Duke Energy has said that it will reduce its ownership of merchant power plants by one-third, completely divesting itself of such plants in the southeastern U.S., after completing a planned sale of eight facilities to a private equity fund.The sale, to the fund MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners II, brings the total value of asset sales either announced or closed by Duke Energy to approximately $2.5 billion this year. The plants to be sold burn natural gas, are located in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi, and have a total capacity of 5,325 megawatts.The completion of the sale is expected in the third quarter of the year, following the approval of each plant's sale by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the approval of the deal by the Federal Trade Commission.The MatlinPatterson fund was started by a former banker with Credit Suisse First Boston, David Matlin, in autumn of 2003. Initially, its investments centered on distressed debt of companies such as MCI, formerly WorldCom. The fund will reportedly acquire the Duke plants for $475 million.
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