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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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PJM Announces More Than 800 New Generation Projects Seek to Connect the Grid

LCG, April 29, 2026--PJM Interconnection today announced that 811 new generation projects applied to connect to the grid through the first Cycle of PJM's new reformed interconnection process, which is designed to improve the certainty, speed and discipline of generation project review. In total, the generation applications would be capable of generating 220 GW of electricity.

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Italy’s Enel to Build 920 Megawatt Plant for Dubai

LCG, July 20, 2000--Italys largest power company, looking abroad following liberalization of the Italian electricity market ended its monopoly at home, has won a contract worth about 1.2 trillion lire ($574,200,000 U.S.) to build a combination combined cycle power plant and desalination plant in Dubai.

The Enelpower subsidiary of Enel SpA will build a 920 megawatt power plant in Jebel Ali at a cost of 800 billion lire ($382,000) and Fisia Italimpianti, a unit of Italys Impreglio SpA, will build at the same location a desalination facility for around 400 billion lire ($191.000).

Enel said the combination power and desalination plant was the largest ever in the United Arab Emirates. The contracts were awarded by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority.

Luigi Giuffrida, Enelpowers managing director, said "The contract marks a further success for the company's overseas expansion strategy, and confirms Enelpower's competitiveness, even in countries, like Dubai, that require the use of advanced technology."

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