News
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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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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Industry News
Cinergy Buys Two Enron Merchant Plants
LCG, March 26, 2001Cinergy Corp. said on Friday its Cinergy Capital & Trading Inc. subsidiary has completed the purchase of two merchant power plants in the Southeastern U.S. from Enron North America for an undisclosed sum.The two plants acquired by Cinergy are a 494 megawatt natural gas-fueled facility in Brownsville, Tenn., 45 miles northeast of Memphis, and a 504 megawatt power plant, also gas-fired, in Caledonia, Miss., on the Alabama border about 15 miles from Columbus.Cinergy said in a news release that the two companies had signed a definitive agreement on the plant sale last December and that regulatory approvals have now been received.
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