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Minnesota PUC Approves Operations Extension for Xcel Energy's Prairie Island Nuclear Plant

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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PGE Announces Addition of 475 MW of Battery Energy Storage Systems to Improve Grid Reliability and Costs

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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FERC Okays 400-mile Ohio-Pennsylvania Pipeline

LCG, July 20, 2000--Independence Pipeline Co. said yesterday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued an order authorizing the company to build and operate a new interstate natural gas pipeline designed to serve growth markets in Ohio, Pennsylvania and the eastern United States.

Independence Pipeline is a general partnership formed by subsidiaries of The Coastal Corp.'sANR Pipeline Company subsidiary, Williams' Transco pipeline and National Fuel Gas Company.The company said its pipeline will be strategically located to provide additional transportation capacity between increasing supplies of natural gas in the Midwest and expanding markets throughout the eastern United States.

The $678 million pipeline will consist of approximately 400 miles of 36-inch diameter pipe, extending from ANR's existing compressor station at Defiance, Ohio, to Williams' Transco's and National Fuel's facilities in Leidy, Pa. It will have an initial capacity of 916 million cubic feet per day. The company hopes to have the line in service by November 2002.

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