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LCG, October 14, 2026--American Electric Power (AEP) today announced plans for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google, under which AEP will invest approximately $4 billion to advance a new 702-MW fuel cell generation project located near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Google will acquire power from Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, which is approximately 92 percent owned and controlled by AEP and 8 percent owned by funds advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners, LLP. AEP and its partners plan to start construction this year and to be fully operational by the end of 2028.
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LCG, October 6, 2026--Google and Constellation Energy today announced a long-term strategic clean energy collaboration to bring 890 MW of new, reliable, carbon-free nuclear capacity onto the PJM Interconnection grid to meet growing demand and increase grid reliability. The first uprate is expected to be delivered by 2028.
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TVA Issues Update on Completion of Watts Bar Unit 2
LCG, October 30, 2013--The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) yesterday issued a quarterly update on the construction of the 1,180-MW, Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear power plant, located in Spring City, Tennessee. TVA stated that the carbon-free, nuclear project remains on track for most likely completion by December 2015 and within a cost range of $4 billion to $4.5 billion.
TVA reports that safety performance is strong and the quality control acceptance rate is high. Furthermore, bulk construction is in the final phase, and the project is transitioning to complete work and prepare plant systems for pre-operational testing. TVA received a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license for fuel to use in Unit 2, and the fuel deliveries commenced last summer.
The original construction on Watts Bar 2 started over 40 years ago in 1972. However, when load growth forecasts dropped in 1988, the unit was deferred. When Watts Bar 1 began commercial operations in May 1996, it became the last commercial nuclear unit in the United States to come on-line.
Construction on Unit 2 resumed in 2007. In April 2012, TVA announced problems with the project, and that the project approved by the TVA board in 2007 appeared "aggressive but doable? at that time. However, TVA further stated, ?The emerging estimate to complete Watts Bar Unit 2 will require additional funding of $1.5 billion to $2 billion, putting the total estimated cost of completion in the range of $4 billion to $4.5 billion. The estimated time to complete is between September and December of 2015."
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