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TerraPower Announces Start of Construction on First Utility-Scale Advanced Nuclear Plant in Wyoming

LCG, April 23, 2026--TerraPower announced today the official start of construction on its Kemmerer Unit 1 nuclear power plant, which could be the first utility-scale advanced nuclear power plant in the United States. In early March, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it had authorized the staff to issue a construction permit for Unit 1 commercial nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

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TVA Announces Two Energy Storage Agreements Totaling 425 MW/1,700 MWh

LCG, April 22, 2026--The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) yesterday announced two new, 20-year agreements for a 225 MW/900 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in East Tennessee and for a 200 MW/800 MWh BESS project in northern Alabama. Both projects are planned to commence commercial operations in 2029.

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Recovery Efforts for Texas Power Outage Continue

LCG, June 7, 2004--An unprecedented set of power outages that affected 500,000 customers of TXU Electric Delivery, following two severe storms early last week, persisted to a lesser extent in some areas through the weekend.

By Friday, roughly 75 per cent of customers who had experienced outages had had service restored, according to TXU Electric Delivery's chairman and chief executive, Tom Baker. The first storm was of hurrice force and hit on Tuesday, June 1, while a second series of storms followed the next day.

In the course of the work by TXU crews and by crews from nine states outside Texas, 40,000 damaged, fallen or broken trees were removed, 23 substations were restored, 550 transmission and distribution poles were installed again, and 4,000 wires that were reported to have been downed were addressed.

"I appreciate the patience of those who are without electric service following this devastating series of storms," Baker said. TXU Electric Delivery is a subsidiary of TXU Corp.
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