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RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company Sign Long-term PPA for 200 MW Wind Project

LCG, December 18, 2025--RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an American Electric Power (AEP) company, today announced their partnering to provide new wind power generation capacity online to meet Indiana’s growing electricity demand. The companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the total output from RWE’s 200 MW Prairie Creek wind project in Blackford County, Indiana. I&M will purchase electricity from the wind project, which will further diversify its portfolio and be consistent with its all-of-the-above strategy to secure generation for its rapidly growing electricity demand.

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NRC Renews Operating Licenses for Constellation's Nuclear Reactors at Clinton and Dresden Facilities

LCG, December 16, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced today that it has renewed the operating licenses of Constellation LLC’s Clinton Unit 1 in Clinton, Illinois, and Dresden Units 2 and 3, near Morris, Illinois, for an additional 20 years beyond the current expiration dates. The combined capacity of these three, Illinois-based nuclear units is 2,925 MW, and the operating license extension will enable the units to generate carbon-free power through about 2050.

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Enron to Build 215 Megawatt Colorado Plant

LCG, Sept. 21, 2000A subsidiary of Enron Corp. will build a $100 million, 215 megawatt power plant south of Colorado Springs, Colo. to sell electricity to the former Public Service Co. of Colorado, which wants to add generating capacity around the state, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported this morning.

Public Service Co. of Colorado is now Xcel Energy Inc., or a part thereof. It had become New Century Energies Inc. when it merged with Southwestern Public Service Co. Now that New Centuries has been folded into Northern States Power Co., it's Xcel. People in Colorado still think of it as Public Service Co.

Earlier this year, the Denver office of Xcel estimated that Colorado would need enough power for another 1.6 million households, on top of the 2.5 million already served by Public Service Co. The company put out a request for proposals asking for bids on 1,500 megawatts of new generation.

Enron North America Corp. successfully offered to build the four-turbine, 215 megawatt natural gas-fired plant near an existing substation six miles from Colorado Springs' municipal power plant, which is fueled by coal.

Wilexco Inc., an Englewood, Colo. company, was another successful bidder, and plans to build an 83 megawatt power plant not far from the Enron facility, if it can get the necessary permits. Getting permits for the Wilexco plant may not be easy because the fuel will be tires, like those Firestones that Ford dealers are throwing away.

Enron expects its plant to be operation by next June, according to Eric Thode, director of public relations for Enron North America. Output from the plant will be sold to Xcel on a 10-year contract, after which the facility could be run as a merchant plant if Colorado deregulates its electric industry and allows competition.

The plant is not being built with that in mind, according to Thode. "This plant is being built for the deal as it currently exists. This deal makes sense because this deal makes sense, period."

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