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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 Renews Operating Licenses for Constellation's Nuclear Reactors at Clinton and Dresden Facilities

LCG, December 16, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced today that it has renewed the operating licenses of Constellation LLC’s Clinton Unit 1 in Clinton, Illinois, and Dresden Units 2 and 3, near Morris, Illinois, for an additional 20 years beyond the current expiration dates. The combined capacity of these three, Illinois-based nuclear units is 2,925 MW, and the operating license extension will enable the units to generate carbon-free power through about 2050.

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Cal Regulators Bar Utilities from Cutting Service;. Restraining Order Called 'Insulting, Unjustified'

LCG, Jan. 22, 2001The California Public Utilities Commission, meeting Friday in an "emergency session," imposed by a 2 to 1 vote a temporary restraining order on Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co. in the inexplicable belief that the utilities intended to unilaterally abrogate their obligation to serve their customers.

The utilities, PUC president Loretta Lynch said, "will not and may not abandon service to customers." Commissioner Henry Duque, who voted against the order, said that the heads of both utilities had told him that they had no intention to shirk their responsibility to their customers. PG&E said it made that plain to all the commissioners before the meeting.

Gordon R. Smith, chief executive of PG&E responded to the order with something approaching high dudgeon. "For nearly 100 years, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has been committed to providing safe and reliable service to our customers in Northern and Central California. Through fires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters, our obligation to serve has never wavered," he said.

"The commission's rhetoric (Friday) is an insult to the 19,000 men and women of PG&E who have worked tirelessly to minimize customer inconvenience" during last week's outages, Smith said.

John Bryson, SoCal Edison's chief executive, called the restraining order "unjustified" and said it was "an insult to the ethic of the 13,000 employees of (the company) who have worked to keep the lights on for their customers."

Bryson pointed out that SoCal Edison "has borrowed billions of dollars, which threatens the company's solvency, through eight and one-half months of inaction and delay by the CPUC, in order to continue to serve its customers."

SoCal Edison said in a statement it "has no intention of unilaterally withdrawing from its obligation, a point that was made clearly and unambiguously to the president of the CPUC, Loretta Lynch, by Bryson in a phone conversation (Thursday) that was initiated by Lynch. Subsequently, this was reiterated in another call from Bryson to Lynch prior to (Friday's) meeting."

SoCal Edison called the restraining order an abuse of its power by the CPUC. PG&E called it a waste of time.

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