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Energy Secretary Issues Emergency Orders to Ensure Indiana Coal-fired Facilities Remain Open to Prevent Midwest Blackouts

LCG, December 24, 2025--The U.S. Secretary of Energy today issued emergency orders to keep two Indiana coal plants operational, with the stated goal to ensure Americans in the Midwest region of the United States have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity heading into the winter months. The orders direct CenterPoint Energy, the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) to take all measures necessary to ensure specified generation units at both the F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer generating stations in Indiana are available to operate.

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RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company Sign Long-term PPA for 200 MW Wind Project

LCG, December 18, 2025--RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an American Electric Power (AEP) company, today announced their partnering to provide new wind power generation capacity online to meet Indiana’s growing electricity demand. The companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the total output from RWE’s 200 MW Prairie Creek wind project in Blackford County, Indiana. I&M will purchase electricity from the wind project, which will further diversify its portfolio and be consistent with its all-of-the-above strategy to secure generation for its rapidly growing electricity demand.

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NRC Slates Indian Point 2 Meeting with Con Ed

LCG, Sept. 20, 2000The Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday gave Consolidated Edison Co. of New York one week to prepare for a meeting to "discuss" the findings of an NRC investigation into the shutdown of the company's 931 megawatt Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant.

A week isn't a lot of time to get ready for the September 26 meeting in King of Prussia, Pa., where the NRC is certain to ask for answers to questions raised by its inspection team.

In a report issued late last month, the NRC inspectors concluded that the overall direction and execution of Consolidated Edison's 1997 steam generator in-service examinations at the Buchanan, N.Y., facility were deficient in several respects.

The agency said deficiencies in Con Edison's steam generator inspection program resulted in the company's failure to adequately account for conditions which adversely affected the detectability of, and increased susceptibility to, tube flaws.

Steam generators contain hundreds of tubes where heat from the nuclear reactor's coolant is transferred to fresh water which is turned to steam used to drive electric turbine generators. Con Edison's practice has been, when one of the tubes gave a little trouble, to pinch it off and make do with one less. For that reason, Indian Point 2 puts out 44 megawatts less than it should.

When a steam generator tube sprang a leak on February 15, Con Edison shut the plant down. The company intended to pinch off yet another tube and restart the plant to meet summer demand, but the NRC said it wanted to take a look.

That look earned Indian Point 2 an NRC red flag. The agency has four degrees of risk significance: green, white, yellow and red. They mean just what you think they mean.

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