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Data Center Customer Adds 620 MW Order for INNIO's J624 Gas Engines

LCG, October 23, 2026--INNIO N.V. yesterday announced a 620 MW follow-on order from a developer and operator of mega-scale data center campuses in the United States. Together with the customer's 1.1 GW order announced previously in July, the new order brings cumulative orders from the customer to approximately 1.72 GW this year.

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The Nuclear Company Announces a 6.6 GW Nuclear Project to Commence Construction by 2030 in Kentucky

LCG, October 21, 2026--The Nuclear Company today announced a proposed nuclear energy campus in Kentucky that could potentially provide 6.6 GW of electric generating capacity. The Prosperity One nuclear energy campus, located along the Ohio River in eastern Kentucky, could accommodate up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors and would be the largest nuclear power generation site in the nation if fully constructed.

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$10 Billion-for-Power Bill Becomes California Law

LCG, Feb. 2, 2001The California Assembly yesterday afternoon mustered the bare minimum number of votes necessary to pass legislation allowing the state to purchase billions of dollars worth of electricity under long-term contracts, and it was immediately signed into law by Gov. Gray Davis.

The law authorizes the state to issue an estimated $10 billion in revenue bonds to fund a program under which the California Department of Water Resources will buy power, presumably at low-low rates, and resell it to utilities for delivery to consumers.

What has not yet been determined is whether power producers will sell electricity to the state at the hoped for rates. An initial round of bidding produced a "weighted average" of 6.9 cents per kilowatt-hour, 25 percent higher than the 5.5 cents legislators had said was the highest permissible price.

It later turned out that the governor's "weighted average" did not include power that would be delivered during periods of high demand.

The Assembly had failed to pass the measure early yesterday after a marathon Wednesday session lasting past midnight. But some Republicans said they crossed the party line after receiving assurances from the governor that he would aggressively encourage the development of new power plants.

Residential electricity customers would be protected from rate increases unless they used 130 percent more power than an arbitrary "baseline," a figure some said would be meaningless. That provision was seen by some Republican lawmakers as having the effect of transferring the higher cost of power to industrial and commercial customers.

Several large California industrial firms Intel Corp. among them have already said they will not plan new facilities in the state and will consider moving some operations to places where electricity is both cheaper and more reliable.

That possibility raises the specter of the residential customers protected from higher rates not having the paychecks with which to pay their low rates.

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