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Minnesota PUC Approves Operations Extension for Xcel Energy's Prairie Island Nuclear Plant

LCG, August 15, 2025--Xcel Energy announced that the company received state approval yesterday from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to extend operations of the Prairie Island nuclear plant through the early 2050s. Prairie Island has two units that have a combined generating capacity of 1,100 MW. The units’ current operating licenses expire in 2033 and 2034.

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PGE Announces Addition of 475 MW of Battery Energy Storage Systems to Improve Grid Reliability and Costs

LCG, August 7, 2025--Portland General Electric (PGE) today announced the completion of three, four-hour lithium-ion utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Oregon, adding 475 MW and more than 1.9 GWh of dispatchable capacity to serve the Portland metro area. Each of these BESS facilities can deliver power during peak demand or when other electric generating facilities are limited, which improves system flexibility, reliability and costs.

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New York's Cross Bay Pipeline Files FERC Application

LCG, July 24, 2000--Cross Bay Pipeline Co., a joint venture between KeySpan Corp., Duke Energy Corp. and The Williams Cos., said Friday it had asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permission to increase deliveries of natural gas across Lower New York Bay and into New York City.

The $59.5 million project will include transfer of ownership of about 37 miles of Williams' existing Transco Lower New York Bay Extension to Cross Bay, an expansion of those existing facilities through construction of a 16,000 horsepower compressor station in Middlesex County, N.J., pipe replacement and system modifications.

Williams and Duke each have a 37.5 percent ownership interest in Cross Bay, while KeySpan owns 25 percent. Construction is scheduled to begin in July of next year with completion expected by Dec. 1, 2002.

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