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Suniva Announces New Facility to Dramatically Increase Solar Cell Manufacturing Capacity in America

LCG, April 15, 2026--Suniva announced yesterday that it has entered agreements to bring a state-of-the-art 4.5 GW solar cell manufacturing facility to Laurens, South Carolina. The new facility, combined with Suniva’s existing facility at its headquarters in metro Atlanta, will bring the company’s total annual domestic solar cell manufacturing capacity to over 5.5 GW.

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U.S. Coal-fired Generating Capacity Retirements in 2025 Are Less Than 20 Percent of Retirements in 2022

LCG, April 13, 2026--The EIA today released an "In-brief Analysis" of U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retirements in 2025. A highlight of the analysis is that, during 2025, the electric power sector retired 2.6 GW of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, which is (i) the least since 2010 and (ii) 5.9 GW less than the planned retirement of 8.5 GW at the beginning of 2025.

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Big Hidrocantábrico Shareholders Back RWE Bid

LCG, March 1, 2001RWE AG of Germany, which is bidding against Electricidade de Portugal to acquire Spain's Hidroelctrica del Cantbrico, said yesterday it had won the backing of two Spanish families which between them own 5 percent of Hidrocantbrico and from a private equity fund that is in the process of acquiring 10 percent of Spain's fourth largest power generator.

RWE said it expected to get support from private investors owning another 10 percent of the Spanish utility, which would give it a healthy 25 percent backing and a good chance of upsetting Electricidade de Portugal, which most observers consider the frontrunner.

Hidrocantbrico has been the target of takeover bids for the past two years, but Dietmar Kuhnt, RWE's chairman, thinks his company will be the one to make it happen. "We are aiming for leadership in both voting rights and capital - it cannot be our aim to create an ownership situation that would lead to a stalemate with EdP," Kuhnt said.

Hidrocantbrico's voting rules limit shareholders, regardless of the size of their holdings, to a 10 percent vote. Thus it is far better to have four supporters with 10 percent each than two with 20 percent each. By the same token, it does not make sense for a suitor to acquire more than 10 percent on its own.

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