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Suniva Announces New Facility to Dramatically Increase Solar Cell Manufacturing Capacity in America

LCG, April 15, 2026--Suniva announced yesterday that it has entered agreements to bring a state-of-the-art 4.5 GW solar cell manufacturing facility to Laurens, South Carolina. The new facility, combined with Suniva’s existing facility at its headquarters in metro Atlanta, will bring the company’s total annual domestic solar cell manufacturing capacity to over 5.5 GW.

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U.S. Coal-fired Generating Capacity Retirements in 2025 Are Less Than 20 Percent of Retirements in 2022

LCG, April 13, 2026--The EIA today released an "In-brief Analysis" of U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retirements in 2025. A highlight of the analysis is that, during 2025, the electric power sector retired 2.6 GW of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, which is (i) the least since 2010 and (ii) 5.9 GW less than the planned retirement of 8.5 GW at the beginning of 2025.

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PowerGen Confirms Merger Talks with German E.On

LCG, Jan. 18, 2001PowerGen Plc, the British utility that generates about 14 percent of the power used in England and Wales and serves more than 2.6 million retail customers, confirmed yesterday that it is in preliminary with German electricity giant E.On.

E.On, which was formed by the merger of Veba AG and Viag AG in 1999, approached the British company about a possible merger, PowerGen said. But PowerGen also said it had received "a number of approaches which may or may not lead to an offer."

PowerGen said in a statement "The discussions are at a preliminary stage and there is no assurance that any of these discussions may result in an offer," and E.On in its statement said the talks were "preliminary discussions about a possible connection with PowerGen."

PowerGen has said in recent months that it was interested in foreign acquisitions, but has not talked about mergers. E.On is know to be anxious to expand its European presence beyond the German borders.

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