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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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LCG, October 23, 2025--Google announced today a first-of-its kind agreement to support a natural gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The 400-MW Broadwing Energy power project, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By agreeing to buy most of the power it generates, Google is helping get this new, baseload power source built and connected to the regional grid that supports our data centers.
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Industry News
Enron Says Dispute Could Cost India $5 Billion
LCG, Sept. 19, 2001--Enron Corp.'s Dabhol Power Co. said yesterday that its dispute with the Indian state of Maharashtra could end up costing the federal government of India $5 billion, because of Maharashtra's disregard for its contractual obligations.Enron completed the first 740 megawatt phase of the Dabhol power plant near Bombay in the middle of last year and the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, the sole customer for the plant's output, immediately began dragging its feet in paying for the power it purchased.Enron was forced to invoke first state guarantees and later federal guarantees to get paid for bills tendered in the fall of last year and early this year. The MSEB in May canceled its purchases from the plant but still owes Dabhol for a month's power. The state-owned utility said Dabhol had "violated" contractual obligations, fined the company $400 million, and grandly advised it to simply deduct the electric bill from what it owed in fines.There was no provision for any of that in the power purchase agreement signed between Enron, Dabhol, the state of Maharashtra, the MSEB and the government of India six years ago.The MSEB has also said it would not take power from the a,444 second phase of Dabhol, which would have been completed by now had Enron not halted construction in July. In July, Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay also said his company wanted to get out of India and would sell its 65 percent interest in Dabhol for what it had in it -- $1 billion.In a statement released yesterday, Dabhol spokesman Jimmy Mogal said "Should this dispute be eventually resolved through the PPA-prescribed termination process, including international arbitration, the liability of (the MSEB, the government of Maharashtra and the government of India) would be approximately $5 billion."The statement also suggested that India could avoid facing liabilities that could total $5 billion by choosing to settle the dispute by paying offshore sponsors and foreign lenders. If it did so, its liability could be less than half that amount, the statement said."We also believe that (foreign lenders) too may now want to exit from the project entirely, and they would want their debt of approximately $1.1 billion to be purchased as well," Dabhol said.
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