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
Presque Isle Unit Back in Operation
LCG, June 13, 2003--Another generating unit at the Presque Isle power plant, in Wisconsin's Upper Pensinsula, is again online, after having been flooded in May after a dam failure on the Dead River of Michigan.Unit 7 is operating at almost 50% of its capacity, according to Chris Iglar, a spokesman for Wisconsin Energy Corp.'s utility We Energies. The potential output for the unit, one of nine at the plant, is 80 megawatts.Overall, a total of four coal-fired units are operational, generating about 250 megawatts.
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UPLAN-NPM
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